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No to the privatization and sell-off of Poste Italiane. This is the cry also launched in Friuli Venezia Giulia by the telecommunications unions Slc-Cgil, Cisl-Slp, UilPoste and Failp-Cisal, who took to the streets this morning in Trieste to protest against the hypothesis of further transfers of the shares of the group, controlled by the Mef and by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
The transfer of control of the company to private individuals, according to the unions, «would also strongly put at risk the employment of the approximately 2,300 employees of Friuli Venezia Giulia, with heavy social repercussions and significant impacts on the economy, as happened in all the bankruptcy cases privatization experiences launched by various governments starting from 1992″. The Italian Post Office, according to the regional secretaries Gianfranco Parziale (Slp Cisl), Riccardo Uccheddu (Slc-Cgil), Ugo Spadaro (Uil Poste), Gaetano Vitale (Failp Cisal) is a company which, «with the great sacrifice of the workers and thanks to an enlightened trade union, has radically transformed from a “public bandwagon” to an extraordinarily economically solid reality, which closed the first quarter of the year with revenues of three billion and with a growing trend in all sectors”. A message also sent to the Prefect on the occasion of the sit-in, held in Piazza Unità.
For the unions, proceeding along the path of privatization is a wrong, anti-economic and anti-social choice. «Poste Italiane – they reiterated – is a company that carries out an indispensable and irreplaceable function given by its widespread presence in every small center of the country. Post offices in some territories are the only front-end with citizens and for the most fragile and less “digitalised” groups such as the elderly”. Hence the fears for the possible repercussions on the Polis project, in which the Italian Post Office has undertaken to keep post offices open even in municipalities with less than 15 thousand inhabitants, over 200 in our region, to guarantee the provision of services on behalf of the public administration and to encourage the digitalisation of rural areas.
