The reasons for the strike and the presidents of the trade unions
Strike by Trenitalia staff, the eight-hour stop of workers throughout the country starts today at 9.00 with possible inconvenience for passengers who risk seeing Frecce, Intercity and regional trains cancelled. Two principals foreseen by the protesting unions: in Milan from 8 to 17 at Platform 3 of the Central Station; from 9 to 10 at the Martesana Imc Deposit (via Fratelli Bressan 43). In Bologna, a gathering of male and female workers in Piazza Medaglie d’oro (square in front of the railway station) from 10 to 12.
“Since the end of the pandemic phase, the working conditions of both all the railway workers and the employees of the cleaning contractors have actually worsened”, denounce the trade unions Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Sml Fast Confsal and Orsa Ferrovie who called the strike. “We need – ask the organizations – an adequate hiring plan and a better balance in the scheduling of shifts that takes into account the reconciliation of working times with those of private life. Train crews live with an excessive saturation of service shifts to the point of not granting vacation days.
“The issue of assaults against personnel on board trains and in stations also needs to be tackled – the unions underline – so we ask to improve the already existing safety conditions to counter this constantly growing phenomenon, including through the activation of the Protocol for the promotion of safety in railway mobility-activities, which we have signed with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of the Interior, shared with the Conference of Regions, ANCI and employers’ associations. consequently, personnel shortages in the sales and assistance sector, heavily penalized by the pandemic phase, risk negatively qualifying a central sector for the quality of a company that has undergone a drastic reduction due to the pandemic phase and which needs a reorganization aimed at solving the critical issues”.
“It is necessary – finally affirmed Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Orsa Ferrovie and Fast Confsal – to implement concrete solutions to resolve the issues reported and the working criticalities of all Trenitalia railway workers”.
On the occasion of the strike there are two principals: in Milan from 8 to 17 at Platform 3 of the Central Station; from 9 to 10 at the Martesana Imc Deposit (via Fratelli Bressan 43). In Bologna, a gathering of male and female workers in Piazza Medaglie d’oro (square in front of the railway station) from 10 to 12.
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