Transport, trade unions: 8-hour strike in the railways on 11 June
Against the absence of social clauses in tenders for Intercity services. Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Fast Confsal and Orsa Trasporti proclaimed the protest. Mimit: "agreeable request, working to avoid strike
On Thursday 11 June, there will be an eight-hour national strike, from 9.01 a.m. to 5 p.m., of the staff of railway companies and railway contractors. To proclaim the protest Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Fast Confsal and Orsa Trasporti pointing out that "the government has chosen to ignore our requests on the risks deriving from the future Intercity railway tenders where it has emerged the will of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to divide the railway contracts into three non-equivalent lots, instead of a single lot".
According to the trade unions, "moreover, the absence of binding social clauses in the tenders, the uncertainty over infrastructure investments, and a liberalisation process that risks offloading the costs onto workers, employees, and citizens are signs that could pave the way for a season of contractual dumping, accompanied by a reduction in the commercial offer due to network congestion and service fragmentation, with inevitable repercussions on the quality of rail transport rendered to users".
"An attack on the country system"
"What we are witnessing - Filt, Fit, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Fast and Orsa explain - is an attack on the country's system, which does not only concern Intercity transport but which, in the immediate future, risks producing very serious impacts also in regional and high-speed transport, a profitable segment in which the entry of a new foreign operator is expected, who will be allowed to operate the service without system constraints, favouring competition based on the reduction of labour costs, to the detriment of companies, railwaymen and the quality of the service offered, also due to the wicked and recent decisions taken by Art, the transport authority".
"Although we are ready to discuss the matter," the trade unions finally state, "we are not prepared to watch in silence the dismemberment of rail transport and the impoverishment of a strategic asset of the country at the expense of workers, employees and citizens.
Mimit, 'workers' demand agreeable', working to avoid strike ++
