A “negotiation that immediately started uphill”. This is how Fim, Fiom and national Uilm commented on yesterday’s meeting with MSC for the post-Wartsila period and the reindustrialisation to produce freight wagons. The unions point out that with respect to the contractual conditions of the transfer of approximately 300 workers from Wartsila to MSC, the latter, «despite being willing to start negotiations, has declared that it wishes to recognize the sole application of the economic and regulatory treatments of the Ccnl and the seniority accrued, as well as being available to recognize a partial integration during the redundancy fund and to reduce the use of social safety nets as much as possible”. Proposals that Fim, Fiom, Uilm consider “insufficient”, claiming “the need to safeguard the effects of the company bargaining in force for all ex Wartsila workers”.
The Medlog group, part of the MSC group, instead said it was “confident about a positive closure of the agreement”.
In the meantime, Mimit has called a videoconference meeting for May 17th at 10am.
Yesterday the trade union organizations and the RSU also met with the Management of Wartsila Italia for a “verification of the Group’s staff and for an update of the industrial plan”. The request is for “industrial commitments, investments and guarantees on employment in all Italian sites beyond 31 December 2025, the expiry date of the plan presented by Wartsila”. Furthermore, it was asked to “find economic solutions for the workers who will move to MSC and to define the workforce site by site and the number of workers that Wartsila intends to transfer to the successor company”. All this “taking into account Wartsila’s desire to cede the Trieste complex to MSC, effectively becoming its tenant company”.
Assemblies with workers will be organized in the next few days.
