Filt Cgil Genoa: not to exceptions to the norms on the times of guide and rest of the haulers



Filt Cgil has hard expressed dissent regarding the demand advanced to the Ministry for Infrastructures and the Transports from some datoriali associations of the field of the road haulage in merit to a possible exception to European directive 561/06 regarding constraints of the times of guide and rest of leading that they journey to Genoa, exception that is asked as measure in order to tackle 14th August to the emergency caused from collapse of the highway viaduct on the Polcevera torrent that crosses the capital of Liguria.

The secretariat Filt Cgil Genoa has explained to consider "a demand for such entity, above all in a circumstance of extreme uneasiness and difficulty as a result of the tragic event happened to the city of Genoa with collapse of the bridge Morandi, extremely pejorative of the conditions of guide, rest, job of the leading professionals of truck, they are employees or "young masters", besides dangerous and not guarantor of the most elementary safety regulations for the workers and the users of the road".

"Come Filt Cgil field Transport Goods - they have remembered, for Filt Cgil Genoa, Enrico Poggi, Marco Gallo and Leonardo Cafuoti - we have publicly restated in more occasions the maximum availability of the workers who we represent and our opening to estimate, with modality shared, possible operating participations in support of the city, of the field and its economy, given that every lend effort, also with the possibility of H24 operativity in the harbour induced one, cannot, and will not fall back in wild way and without rules on the shoulders of the drivers of the road haulage. This demand for exception - they have denounced - goes in opposite direction to repentine and concrete solutions, in order to return to normality, than instead persistently we are from on 14 August demanding to all the interested institutions".

"The inopportune participation of these trade associations - they have emphasized Hills, Gallo and Cafuoti - goes to impattare on the conditions of job in terms of greater hard work, loss of concentration and difficulty of psicofisico recovery and could remarkablly increase the risk of incidents, unfortunately often mortal, on the job and between the users of the road. It is not of that it has Genoa need"

"The secretariat Filt Cgil Genoa - they have concluded the representatives of the labor organization - rejects any attempt of modification of the regulation of the times of guide and rest for leading of truck that does not guarantee safety of the workers and the users of the road. To protection of safety and the job and living conditions of the travelling staff! For a balanced alternation of the times of guide and rest! For a city that looks to the future, that it deserves and it expects safety"