Filt-Cgil Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti exhort the government and the shipowners to assist and to support the marine ones



The general secretaries of Filt-Cgil Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti, Stefano Malorgio, Salvatore Pellecchia and Claudio Tarlazzi, exhort the government and the shipowners to assist and to support the marine ones in this period of crisis caused from the pandemic: "the emergency coronavirus, because of the stop to the international connections for the passengers - they have explained - is obligating the marine ones to longer periods of boarding that are putting them to hard test, is physical that mental, considering the long distance from own families. The government and the shipowners - they have emphasized - cannot ignore this situation and must act quickly to defense of the workers".

"During lockdown - Malorgio, Pellecchia and Tarlazzi have remembered - the marine transport he has been determining in order to guarantee supplying of medicines, food and other assets first necessity, since 85% of the goods travel by sea. The marine ones have given and are continuing to give the maximum in difficult conditions. Now but - the three general secretaries have asked - it must take care of they and own rights. On board of the ships the marine ones are about 200 thousand blocked that they wait for of being replaced with other marine ones waiting for boarding. Moreover on board it goes strengthened the monitoring of the health conditions is in general terms that in relation to the Covid-19. At last we consider that it must be restarted as soon as possible I confront on I renew of the national contract of field, whose negotiations have reached to one I unwind important and appreciated from the counterparts".

"All these criticalities, if resolved quickly - they have found Malorgio, Pellecchia and Tarlazzi - they will not carry all the field to a breaking point. As confederal labor organizations we would want to avoid all this and for this, we ask the shipowners, besides the already profuse engagement in order to guarantee the health and safety of the dependent, to develop an ulterior effort in order definitively to resolve a situation become indefensible for many marine ones. Meanwhile the ministers of the Transports and Foreign countries, Paola De Micheli and Luigi Di Maio - they have concluded the representatives of Filt-Cgil Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti - convene in order to find us quickly the best solutions".