“They leave us at home without it forewarning and without motivation” but “work is a right”. It is the protest of the logistics workers of Gottardo Spa, the company in charge of the brand Tigotà. The workers organized a garrison at Milan in front of the Lombardy Region building on the day of national strike for the entire logistics sector organized by Cub Trasporti, Si Cobas, Adl Cobas and Confederazione Cobas. “We are 200we have family, and we stayed exploited For years, the company has grown thanks to our people effortseven during the pandemic, we worked 14 hours a day“, underlines one of the demonstrators. “We don’t want a good exit, we want be able to work.”
The employees left at home, in fact, are those in logistics Gottardo Spa, a leading company in Italy in the sale of home and personal care products in Tigotà stores. Due to the imminent closure of Broni warehouse, in the Pavia area, judged unproductive by the company, 200 are at risk of being left without work. Logistics will in fact be moved to Mantuaand Gottardo doesn’t seem willing to transfer the workers in the new headquarters. The claims of the strikers are very harsh: “They claim to be at a loss, but they continue to grow and open new locations thanks to our work, how is this possible?”, asks a worker. “They have us broke his back“, reports another.
“After Fedex-Tnt and Leroy Merlinthe scandal he sees continues billion-dollar multinationals arrive in our home, devastate the territory and then leave (leaving us kilometers of concreted land) when the cost of workers becomes ‘too high'”, we read on the website of the Cobas Intercategorical Union regarding the situation. “A shame entirely Italian, consistent with the neoliberal model so dear to right-wing and ‘left-wing’ politics which sees workers asnecessary annoyance‘ to be kept at the level of slaveryand then get rid of them when they decide to fight“. “Obviously we will not leave these workers alone and the resistance has only just begun, but once again it highlights the enormous regulatory hole and the guilty political complicity that allows the masters of the world to increase their own turnovers on the skin of the workers”, specifies Si Cobas.
The Broni workers’ protest is part of the broader strike in the logistics sector underway. The unions, specifically, are asking for an increase in 300 euros per month for all workers, the reduction ofworking hoursthe recognition of night job from 8pm to 8am. Among the requests is also the definitive overcoming of the figure of Working partner and the companies’ hiring of personnel currently outsourced or belonging to related industries. And finally major security guarantees on the workplace with the elimination of precariousness. “Logistics is a sector fundamental of the Italian economy and yet workers experience a strong condition exploitation with low wages and rights and exhausting work shifts,” he says Walter Montagnoli, of the Cub national secretariat (Basic Unitary Confederation). “It’s time to get a contract that guarantees good wages, the elimination of precariousness and employment guarantees.”
