the Costa Crociere dispute must become a national case



According to the Municipality of Genoa and the Region Liguria, the Costa Crociere dispute, than this morning it has seen for the first time in the history of the company a strike of employee its, must be faced domestically. "The choice of the company of delocalizzare four departments and transferring 161 workers to Amburgo - the regional city council members to the Job and the Infrastructures Enrico Vesco and Raffaella Paita have explained - is faces to the city. Any I confront with Costa Crociere must be subordinate to the withdrawal of the procedure and for this it hard serves also a engagement of the government".

From part its genoese municipal administration has asked Costa Crociere the suspension for the formal procedure for transfer for company branch. This morning the mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria, with the city council member to the economic Development, Emanuele Piazza, has met the labor organizations and the workers of the crocieristica company. "The Municipality of Genoa - the first citizen has declared - manifest its firm will to be participant interlocutor in every phase of this event, for at best protecting the interests of the workers and the city. The municipal administration asks the Costa Crociere company, in the respect of own autonomy, the suspension of the formal procedure of transfer of company branch. Such demand - Doria has explained - is motivated by the ascertainment that Costa Crociere, thanks to the engagement and to the professionality of employee own, has achieved of the positive economic results and he is not found in a crisis situation. It is right, therefore, to discuss about the strategies of the group without precipitations and without to create useless social tensions".

"The presence of Costa Crociere to Genoa and in Italy - it has found the mayor - is a point of excellence in the national economy. The perspectives of this group in our Country are, therefore, a issue of which the government it must be made loaded starting a prompt one I confront with the property of the Carnival multinational. To such I confront the Common one is obviously ready to guarantee its participation".

After the encounter with the mayor, the workers of Costa Crociere are received in Region from the Paita city council members and Vesco, to the presence also of the deputy Mario Tullo, that they have defined the attitude of Coast "an insult to the city" and they have been said ready to make to become the event of Costa Crociere "a national case" that you carry to the reopening of the negotiation. "Coast - Paita and Vesco have said - is a travalica company that from Liguria borders, an axis carrying for our Country that we cannot lose in no way".

The regional city council members have asked an participation the Prime Minister Renzi and minister Lupi in order to make to reopen the negotiation. And to this end the deputy Mario Tullo has restated of wanting to use the day tomorrow, when the oath of the President of the Republic is carried out, in order to emphasize to the executive the importance of the dispute and "to ask taking for clear position that can make to desist from the will to carry an excellence elsewhere". "Maximum engagement and unit of all the institutions have concluded Raffaella Paita - in order to head held high defend the workers and an excellence of Genoa and Italy. At stake there is the prestige of the capital of Liguria that does not have to lose functions, above all in the marine and harbour fields, where it expresses a supremacy to international level".