Protest for excessive workloads to which the staff of the services of the port of Palermo is subordinate



The staff of the C.L.P. G. Tutrone and of the Port Italy, society cooperatives that manage the services in the port of Palermo, protests for excessive workloads. Harbour fridays the secretary of Fit Cisl, Nino Napoli, have begun a strike of the hunger in order to evidence that about 250 workers of the two companies they must tackle to reduced salaries and workloads doubled while lasts the uncertainty on the occupational future, with the anxiety to receive every day lay-off letters.

The workers of C.L.P and Port Italy - Naples has explained - "live, by now, for the great majority, of redundancy fund, with indeed insufferable an economic and social uneasiness". The two societies are placed under judicial administration: "the judicial administration - it has specified the trade-union representative - had decided the increase of workloads in order to support the motivations of a reduction in price of the rates for the shipowning societies. In fact - Naples has denounced - today on the attache's hung the triple one of cargos regarding the other Italian ports. From here also the dissatisfaction of some shipowners on the level of insufficient quality of the service for via of the low number of attached and the consequent one chosen to carry out own on behalf, in self-handler, the harbour services. All this seriously puts to risk the future of 250 families".

"The same shipowners - it has continued Naples - have in more occasions manifested own perplexities about the attitude of a judicial administration totally unsuited absentee to the management of a harbour company that weevers and work 24 hours on 24". "When the judicial administrations replace the ordinaries - it has added the regional secretary of Ambient Fit Cisl, Dionisio Giordano - would be wished that the distance of easy legalities that of the development, instead introducing contrary elements. Well in this case it has determined the increase of workloads outside from the norm, salaries and wage heavy reduced and no perspective for the future. The prescription of the judicial administration for the management of the harbour companies is not at the same time producing to the auspicious binomial of legality and development of the enterprise. Also on the topic of the legality - it has concluded Jordanian - we would want to know that outcome has had the provisions assumed on the 25 suspended workers, to that point is the controls and the verifications, that they are certainly necessary in order to restore the serenity of all and the sense of justice".