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Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti against the lay-offs in Fedex and TNT
The unions have announced that they will propose an alternative plan to that official notice from the two companies
May 2, 2018
The labor organizations Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti have lined up against the lay-off of 361 dependent of the express societies of logistics and deliveries Fedex and TNT. The group Fedex American, than in 2015 has bought the TNT(on 7 April 2015), it has adopted a restructure plan, with esuberi of the staff also in Italy against which they have protested the unions that have announced the presentation of alternative plan: "we will put in field - Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti have explained - every useful initiative and we will not afford that the human patrimony of Fedex is impoverished. The business summits of Fedex, together with those of TNT, have traced a distance improbable, confused and above all inadequate consequently to maintain and to develop to the productive volumes and the turnover profitable. For our part we have already involved ETF, the European federation of the workers of the transports to which we are associates, in order to stop in time the next lay-offs and will propose an alternative plan to that official notice on 20 April from the two companies, that it previews the lay-off of 315 Fedex dependent and 46 workers TNT, besides a hundred of disguised transfers that they will be translate in as many lay-offs, because of the distance of the centers".
According to Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti, "the challenge that has been opened with the electronic commerce will be played on the plan of the quality of the job, the amount and the times of attainment of the final customer, and this is the true mission of the distribution of the last mile of the goods. We are aware of the importance of this and - they have specified the unions - we consider is possible to pursue the reorganization of the activities, developing the internal acquaintances in order to characterize better the job, heading at the professionality of the dependent. It is not comprised because it must give to course to a hybrid model esternalizzando the courier activities. We will propose to the assets of the 4 delegates of next May - they have concluded Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti - a solid one and articulated fight initiative, also to European level, involving the workers of Fedex and TNT and all the field".
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