It 'just leaked from the meeting held yesterday, October 19, the Ministry of Transport in Rome on the thorny matter of redundant port 442 to the port of Gioia Tauro. Incident that had triggered a wildcat strike of two days, on 12 and 13 October, with the blockade of the port of transhipment run by Medcenter- Contship, Italian-German giant logistics for more than 20 years at the helm of the airport of Gioiese flat. Starting from the strike of the urgency of convening stakeholders and re-open negotiations on the number of redundancies and to define the path and the sustainability of the Agency for the work that should take care of the relocation of port. The meeting ended with a stalemate on the reduction of redundancies and the reinstatement of the workers; while it has come to be estimated at € 45 million, to be spread over three years, the amount of work required to the Agency which should be back to work the port for five years in layoffs. In Rome, not everything went the right way, the meeting, in fact, according to the statement released by the union confederal unit, was marked by moments of tension between the technicians of the Ministry of Delrio Antonio Texts and transport, the special commissioner recently appointed and representing the interests Medcenter. Try below to rebuild a part of this complex story that is set against the global crisis and significant impact on the lives of thousands of port.
1290 port, those made redundant, ie those that are no longer useful to the interests of the MCT, the company that manages the port of Gioia Tauro - 442 are mostly workers of the square, almost a third of the total workforce. In addition to these workers who depend directly on the MCT-Contship, a substantial part of the work required to move the container has been contracted to external cooperatives, with obvious advantages for MCT in terms of reduction of fixed costs. In all: four lashing companies 160 workers; 1 firm tramacco 40 workers; 1 reefer 20 company workers and four companies that deal with handling equipment with about 160 workers.
But let's understand why we come to a third of the redundant workers, of which 50% Operating on the square. As one worker, this does not depend on technological innovations, as has happened in other ports of Northern Europe, but rather by the crisis and the choices made by Mct to solve the problem of the labor rejection of part of the port marked by years of exhausting shifts:
'' No technology. The redundancies result from 2008 with the loss of lines Maersk and Grand Alliance, from that moment on we have moved from 3.6000000 to 2.2000000 TEUs, then there was the "recovery" and we are at 2.9 / 3 million TEU, using in fact 60% of the quay and yard concession. Always with the abandonment of lines, rail containers are gone, we went from 3,600 pairs of trains per year to 0 trains. Another important fact to know: in 2007/2008 were 670 square operators, with absenteeism (including employees) of 14% (illness, parental leave, electoral permits, study permits, accident, union leave, part-time) to handle peaks work and cover the gaps generated by this situation, the company has taken (to turn) about 300 workers - with contracts ranging from one week up to three months - with the 2008 crisis have not been recalled ... ..in 2009/10, about 240 out of 300 have made the dispute in court to be summarized, because the company had abused this type of contract; in 2011 the judge agrees with these guys, condemning the company to summarize those who have had recourse, recognizing seniority from the first contract and equal dignity ... ..l'azienda losing the first causes decided for conciliation. Strangely enough (but not too) not all workers had the right to be summarized, however, the company has decided not to appeal, so moving, from 670 to 950 workers in the square ... .here because there is redundant. So who profited on these contracts? Only the company? The union? For sure, these guys are not to blame ''.
On the other hand it is not the first that the Mct makes use of layoffs: in the past years there have been threats of job cuts before falling back, with many economic benefits and relief for the company and for the capital invested in port.
But back to the last story. Already in the first days of July there was a meeting in Rome, at the Council of Ministers, including trade unions, companies, institutions and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Graziano Delrio. The issues: safeguards for workers and the revitalization of the port of Gioia Tauro. A pilgrimage to Rome to meet with the minister Graziano Delrio and undersecretaries Claudio De Vincenti and Teresa Bellanova had come Oliverio President of the region, the regional councilor in many systems: the logistics system, the port system and Gioia Tauro system, Francesco Russo, and then Cecilia Battistello, president of MCT-Contship, and regional and national secretaries UGL sea and ports, Ornella Cuzzupi, Cozzucoli Francesco and Pasquale Mennella. That meeting ended with a promise to sign an agreement for the creation of an agency for the work aimed at the upgrading of port redundancies and layoffs for one year from 1 August. No lack of statements ritual full of hope. For example Delrio after the meeting of July 6 in a press release stated: '' Yes, it's taken an important step forward today to Gioia Tauro at Palazzo Chigi, the establishment of Agency for labor and with the Programme Agreement for the revitalization of the port, which allow the protection of workers and a development perspective ''. The idea was that restoring a 'mission' production to the port of Gioia Tauro if they guaranteed the recovery and hence employment (www.cn24tv.it/news).
In the second week of July the agreement was signed by all, including ICYL, CISL, UIL, UGL, Sul. The money to be allocated many millions: agency costs for port work 45 million Euros in 3 years (stability law); for the dry dock ships 40 million funded by the pact for the region Calabria; the dock adjustment for the docking of the dry dock, 15 million Euros (AP). To these must be added the costs of tax exemption of dues of € 11 million and the tax exemption fuel excise and energy costs € 3.5 million.
Various ideas on 'mission': shipbuilding, container repair, and interventions for oleare logistics resolving the vexed question rail adjustment. In this wave of operations, port redundant, which in three years should go back to work, they seem to function as a trojan horse to get the aid package and a number of investors with useful facilities.
Past summer, for two days, on 12 and 13 October, the harbor blocking the port for 50 hours. Early in the afternoon of October 12 the MCT managers and union representatives had assembled to discuss the redundancies, to reduce their number. At 19, after about four hours of negotiations, given the dismissal of the company, at shift change port blockaded the port. A block that made fear for the determination and the liveliness of the workers' assemblies. To retract the strike, in addition to the usual visits of the national secretaries of the largest unions, he has played the card of the meeting of 19 October in Rome with a promise to discuss a miraculous reintegration plan. The strike came back as they wanted the major unions splitting the front of the struggle between young people determined to continue and others. To this we must add that to feed cracks - as well as explaining a operaio- port redundant are labeled patients, undergoing treatment just because of layoffs. And it is rather the opposite, he adds, '' here have created a mechanism that devours money for decades, the assisted is not us but them ''.
As mentioned, to resolve the matter, it was decided to open another bandwagon that should revolve around this elusive national agency for portuale- work, as well as being a device to wear down the protests, should draw up redevelopment plans staff. According to instead support the workers it is a momentary stand for port redundant to then transmit a part to the work and to leave the rest at home. It 'important not to forget, first, that Gioia Tauro is not the only port ready to staff reductions; the issue is not national but regional and even more world if you think that the great crisis has also affected the ports that account for their suffering - as recalled Sergio Bologna in an article that is well worth reading on the bankruptcy of the largest southern maritime company Korean Hinjin (which you can read here http://ilmanifesto.info/la-tempesta-perfetta-della-logistica/) - and another big problem not least, that of the 'gigantism', shipbuilding and ports. Gioia Tauro is one of these; to build it were wiped out hectares of orange groves, cemented kilometers of land and beach, with a brutal impact on the landscape become, by now, unrecognizable in the eyes of those who grew up there. The 'port of miracles' was supported and touted as one of the challenges of the South; the port of employment revival and redemption after the failure of the V steel plant, another crazy plan which fortunately never saw the light in Gioiese flat.
But as experience shows, does not always save themselves fortuitously by damage while shielding other damages; and behold, we have arrived at the port, and it is likely that in 2069 we'll be still here to discuss on the redundancy plans for the last 15 port remained, after the robot will be taken over to the workers. If you follow the story of the port you can see how the recovery plans do not have anything sensible, and those that are proposed as solutions are fairly uncertain and often dangerous. Let's talk about Zes - Special Economic Zone - or even shipbuilding for the repair of large vessels. Interventions that are passed off as decisive for the employment revival but in fact likely to be a dangerous dead end screw from an empty labourist ideology.
Because the big shipping companies should prefer Gioia Tauro if there are competitive places in the world for repairs or demolition? Why should you make a Zes area? Who really worthwhile? What are the further damage to the area, the landscape, the lives of people? Studies on adverse impacts of special economic zones (SEZ) are not lacking. No, look closely what is being proposed is not sensible. If these are some of the solutions, and has long been talked about, you'd think that beyond the dichiarate- intentions given the gigantism, the crisis, advancing automation, ie in the labor saving investments, having to eliminate thousands of port workers and not knowing how to get on in the worst tradition of concerted searching for a useful reply to delay the issue, wait for the waters to calm down to further reduce the capacity to act of the workers and above all block the strikes that are the thing most feared. Two days of blocking and even more in a transhipment port weigh and if anything, the practice should become contagious, as they did in the past, at national and global level, the trouble for those who today think they can handle, without compromising the levels of profit acquired , would increase the port logistics, and would face a working community that unless the bait yet another love, it will be increasingly determined because aware of his forza.Per about crises and employment
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