The M5S councilor at the Municipality of Palermo Concetta Amella declares: “The failure to approve the second level agreements by the municipal administration represented the fulcrum of today’s meeting of the third commission with various trade unions. Since 2007, these agreements, fundamental for workers, have not been renewed, a need that is now urgent in a context of galloping inflation, high prices of living, very low wages and increased taxes.
A very serious damage for those who, like the workers of Amat, have been waiting for food stamps and stabilization for twenty years, and on whom a blood and tears rebalancing plan weighs like a boulder which, after a year, a very serious fact, did not receive the favorable opinion of the Court of Auditors.
To make the situation worse, we add the fact that the company in question operates without a service contract worthy of the name, which as declared by the admiring Lagalla, should have been renewed by 31 March 2024, and without an industrial plan, already cost 65,000 euros, which the council should have approved by 30 September 2023. And net of the increase in revenues deriving from the sale of tickets of the two lines serving the seaside villages, to which 24 cars are dedicated against a total of 54 lines, for which only three cars per line are planned, the economic picture remains dramatic and the service is terrible. In the city there are very long waits at stops and few buses in the city. And how could it be different if out of the 180 cars that make up the Amat fleet, at least half remain in storage? Emblematic are the cases of line 106, which connects the car park in via degli Emiri to the Barbera stadium, and of line 307, which connects the car park in via Basile to Borgo Nuovo, where yesterday only one car, per line, led to waits of up to an hour and a half. The question therefore arises spontaneously: does the mayor have a vision of development and relaunch for Amat or is his intention to privatize it? As M5S we will commit ourselves to ensuring that essential services such as transport are and remain public”.b
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