Indefinite strike and interlocutory meeting in the port system authorities for the workers of the Genoa Metal Terminal of the Steinweg group and of the subsidiary Csm – Centro Smistamento Merci, 55 working on the terminals, awaiting the meeting scheduled for Tuesday at Palazzo San Giorgio, when they will be analyzed the issues at the center of the dispute. The trade unions, Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti denounce in a note: «Precarious safety conditions, non-existent trade union relations as well as attitudes which are perceived by employees as hostile and oppressive and which, for some workers considered “inconvenient” have resulted in illegitimate dismissals”. A situation that has been going on for some time, explain some of the workers, since the change of direction of the terminal in 2022 with a situation that has become more rigid despite an always very strong commitment to achieving the terminal’s production records. «But in the face of this, relations have hardened, first there were demotions of workers, cuts in overtime up to dismissals that we consider unjustified, first of a worker who was injured and, a few days ago, of a shift supervisor who was irregularities in the use of the 104 have been reported”.
The situation inside the terminal, in fact, is very serious. “We are all very tense – explain the workers – because it is not easy to work with the fear of being accused of mistakes and of being sanctioned or even losing your job”. Now, therefore, we await June 25th, when there will be a meeting dedicated to the dispute within the port system authorities, continuing the strike and protest. «These workers, who have contributed significantly, despite the problems of recent years, to the ever new corporate production records – the unions conclude – they are receiving in exchange a corporate attitude that is no longer acceptable. Therefore we say Enough to this situation. We are doing it with the strike and the struggle, ongoing in recent days and we will continue until we see a concrete change.”
