strike to the port of Gioia Tauro


To conclusion of the encounter yesterday to Rome convened from the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Trasportiper in order to face the problematic criticalities and relative to the levels of productivity and the development of the port of Gioia Tauro, besides the occupational criticalities, the unions have received the invitation of the ministry to immediately suspend the actions of strike indette for the duration of ten days and in existence from a week for protest against the 400 programmed esuberi from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the society that manages the container terminal of the calabrian port and that it employs some 1.300 people.

"We express - the general secretary of the Uiltrasporti has explained, Claudio Tarlazzi - a positive judgment on the outcome of the encounter happened to the MIT on the dispute of the workers of the port of Gioia Tauro and therefore we suspend strike. With the availability of the competent ministry now the solutions will have to be characterized that we claim for a long time and that with the single company it was not successful to find".

Cisl has evidenced as that yesterday has been a step forward in the dispute that interests the workers of the port of Gioia Tauro "who - it has emphasized the labor organization - from the roman encounter with minister Delrio, they have obtained from the company the availability to dealing on the 400 announced esuberi".

the encounter yesterday has been concluded with the subscription of minutes of encounter between MIT, Ministry of the Job, Calabria Region, Prefecture of Reggio Calabria and Harbour Autorità of Gioia Tauro with all the trade-union acronyms and Medcenter Container Terminal. With such agreement, through bilateral encounters ministry-unions and ministry-company, the MIT assumes the role of facilitatore in the dispute in order to face the problematic criticalities and the relative ones to the development of the port of Gioia Tauro and to those occupational ones.

In the encounter is evidenced the following points of understanding: confirmation Agreements of Program Picture (APQ); confirmation of the actions and times of the technical tables; clarifications on the rules of the Agency to begin from the confirmation, previewed in the norm instituted, than after the 36 months it will be able to second transform in Agency for the temporary job art. the 17 of law 84/94.

In particular, the ministry assumes the role of facilitatore in the dialogue between the parts and the engagement to continue to work in the within of National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics, and the APQ and to activate the measures necessary to throw again the competitiveness of the port of Gioia Tauro, being characterized the following lines of action: reactivation of the table of coordination of the APQ, with the presence of the social parts; activation of a bilateral table with a calendar tightening of encounters between trade-union government-organizations, government-company on the regarding issues the following points: number of the workers to place in Agency (the parts convene on the opportunity that carefully is estimated the reduction of the number of the esuberi to light of the evidenced contents over); transparent method of appraisal of the criteria; clarifications on the reporting of the company that has determined the number of workers in esubero.