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Fit Cisl, the closing of the system of Brescia of SBB Italy Cargo is the demonstration of the failure of the liberalization of the rail shipment
the union announces the opening of a season of conflicts
May 21, 2013
After the closing of Orbassano, SBB Cargo Italy, the branch Italian of railway society Helvetic SBB International Cargo, gets ready to close the system of Brescia. The denunciation Fit Cisl Lombardy emphasizing that the news of the closing "is the demonstration of the failure, in our Country, of the liberalization of the rail shipment".
"Rather than to favor the modal re-balance through the increment of the amounts of goods transported on iron - accusation the regional secretary of the Fit Cisl Lombardy, Francesco Ferrante - the liberalization of the rail shipment in Italy is provoking alone social uneasiness and, paradoxicalally, it is moving transport quotas towards the rubber".
"These new railway enterprises in fact - it adds Shoeing - before have removed market shares to the former Trenitalia monopolist and then, against debatable losses of quotas traffic, compensabili through a redistribution of the production, they close the systems forcing who has necessity to send goods to address to the transport on rubber".
Fit Lombardy evidences as to the damage brought to the "System Country" the drama of the involved workers joins: "many - it explains Shoeing - are found to Brescia because, opportunely, they have already quickly of the coercive transfers and already they have been red-adapt with their families in the new truth. This way to make is not more tolerable: the new minister of the Transports, than moreover is Lombardic and knows well the regional truth, will have to find the time in order to take care of our railway system since its predecessor is not successful to make it".
Moreover precise the labor organization that if SBB Italy Cargo will not see again own business strategies regarding the bresciano garrison will open a season of conflicts: "we do not forget that SBB Italy Cargo although it is, in all respects, a railway enterprise - it concludes Shoeing -, continues to apply, improperly, the employment contract of local public transport rather than national the collective contract of recently renewed railway Mobility-Activity".
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