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Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti line up with the ITF and ETF against the self-handler in the ports
To risk, beyond the rights and the salaries of the harbour workers, there is also safety of the marine ones
May 13, 2019
Today to Genoa the unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, to the presence of the president of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), Paddy Crumlin, and of delegated of its European section ETF, have held a press conference in order to once again denounce repeating itself of cases of self-handler in the Italian ports, with harbour operations of rizzaggio and derizzaggio of the cargos that instead of being executed from harbour workers are carried out by marine of the ships.
Issue that, also in sight of strike of 24 hours that the three Italian unions have proclaimed in order on 23 May in the national ports in order to protest against the stall of the negotiations on the collective contract of the harbour workers, the today's encounter has faced in wider way, evidencing as the navigation companies, than in many cases operates also as terminalisti let alone as logistic and trasportistici operators, they stretch to govern the entire one supply chain and to compress the rights and the salaries of the workers.
Compression - they have emphasized the representatives of the unions - that goes to scapito also of safety of the harbour workers but also of the marine ones, as has demonstrated once again to the happened fact friday in the port of Genoa on board of portacontainer the As Palatia operated from the company of Chinese navigation COSCO Shipping Lines where two marine ones are hung to a davit in order to carry out the recovery of materials fallen between the container.
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