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Federmar-Cisal rejects the demand for Marine Italy to increase the duration of the boarding of the navigating staff
The union accusation the company to place a blackmail in existence threatening the transfer of the ships of the company under other flag
July 23, 2012
Federmar-Cisal Marine Italy accusation (former Lloyd Triestino), society of navigation of the shipowning group taiwanese Evergreen, to threaten the transfer of the ships of the company under other flag if the duration of the period of boarding of the navigating staff will not be increased. The union, that it has met this morning the representatives of Marine Italy, has explained that the demand advanced from the company aimed to elevate to eight the current period of four months previewed is from National Contratto Collective of Job who give Contratto Integrating, renewed, this last one, less than a year it makes.
"The motivations capacities from Marine Italy in support of own demand - it has specified the regional secretary of Federmar-Cisal, Giorgio Marangoni - concern mainly on a difference of costs who would be between the Italian staff and that of the crews of the other societies of the Evergreen group and from here the threat. not even a lot veiled, than the group leader of Taiwan it could decide to transfer the ships of the company under other flag, that it would mean the loss of the place of work for the marine currently employed Italians from the society".
"For the Federmar-Cisal - it has denounced Cormorants - this position is shaped in an ignoble blackmail, which considered that the savings that would be achieved with this operation, deriving in particular from the decrease of the alternation expenses (travels, per diem, etc) for the substitution of the crews, turn out, you count friendly, absolutely ininfluenti and marginal regarding the complex of the operating costs of a ship. Moreover, always for the Federmar-Cisal, it exists also and above all a problem of safety for navigation as it is the increase of the intentional pensionabile age from this government who the extension of the period of boarding could negatively influence on the psicofisico state of which is charged to carry for the world, in every condition of time and place, colossus of 70-80mila tons, long as three you live of soccer, with five thousand and on board passes containers and with parkings for a limited period in the ports".
Cormorants have evidenced that, "while the unions of category of Cgil-Cisl-Uil have lowered the head yielding totally to the pretensions of Marine Italy, the Federmar-Cisal has not signed some agreement with regard to because, besides the aforesaid considerations, considers anytime that however, in front of compliance of the union, the Chineses will be able to activate in its confront and towards the workers, and for any demand, the blackmail of the transfer of the ships under foreign flag. Moreover because, restoring the period of boarding to eight months, period that, must repeat, is of four months in Italy, the marine ones of Marine Italy are in such a way reverted to years sixty, seeing so made useless more than means century than trade-union fights supported in order to improve the conditions of the category".
Federmar-Cisal has concluded announcing the decision to denounce the issue to the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and to the Marine Authority of Trieste, center of the navigation company.
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