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Sunday, May 1, 2005
THE COURIER OF FLORENCE - PROVINCE -

Scandicci confrontation continues on the warehouse at Pratorni shifts, assigned to ' Unicoop outside, the dispute is doubled. Litigation than 30 employees joined the UIL

SCANDICCI - Two workers Unicoop litigation against the company. As reported by some workers in the warehouse of the RSU Pratoni, in the industrial area Scandicci, two lawsuits were pending against the company.
The first legal action will be undertaken in a private manner, over 30 dipendententi, while the second, which has not yet joined the same number of workers, has gained the support of a union, the UIL more precisely.
And 'the second aspect that leads to further reflection and to assess the situation from a political point of view also: the competition between different unions. In recent weeks the workers, before collecting the necessary funds to proceed privately against the company, had sought the support of all unions in the warehouse, including the CGIL. Just latter, however, based on the advice of their attorney, had said not to have given his support to workers, because there were no sufficient grounds to proceed against Unicoop and win a possible dispute.
Also as explained by some employees of the RSU, the dispute will leverage private consultation on the failure of the new working hours, which would be imposed unilaterally by the company, while the union that does not require the financial support of the employees, I will quote Unicoop for anti-union behavior.
Workers warehouse are not entirely agree with the new philosophy of the company that decided to outsource the entire afternoon shift at Cft, a cooperative external active in the field of materials handling. In this way, since in recent weeks has been suppressed in the night shift, workers employed by Unicoop can no longer carry out its activities on alternate years and then are forced to have to work on the only morning shift, which forces many of them, especially those who come from far away, exasperated at times.
The working time is not however the main problem. The main concerns the warehouse workers is primarily the fear that future management can be given to a company completely Estena.

Claudio Bozza