Friday, January 5, 2007
METROPOLIS
COOP AND WORKERS IN COURT
yet irreconcilable positions between the company and the staff on the afternoon shift
Firman
may soon reach a solution to the crisis that now consumes two years between the company and workers employed by the Coop distribution center in the industrial area Scandicci. Centrodel to the dispute, the working hours. Some of the more than 120 warehouse workers contesting the decision to have the property fully contracted the afternoon shift and night deposit, the cooperative CFT (which employs mostly non-EU staff), relegating the employees to the traditional single shift in the morning. In particular, the workers do not challenge the choice, legitimate, that a prerogative of the business policy of the Coop, as the one-sidedness with which it was made. From Saturday to Monday in the first months of 2005, the workers apparently were told to appear exclusively for the morning shift, and never for one afternoon (the night was even then the sole responsibility of the cooperative contract). The fear is that the workers behind such a move, according to them is unlawful because it did not previously coordinated with the unions, there is an intention to entrust soon, the entire distribution center Coop, to outside firms, who lend their work in procurement, enabling the company obvious savings management. "I do not want to believe that licensing one - is to know one of the thirty persons who have opened a dispute in the Court's work - but maybe redistributed among the various outlets scattered throughout the province." And so for fear of this eventuality, once established, according to them, the margins of illegality in the conduct and management have opened a case against the company. In the absence of a union willing to take on this dispute ("Coop are all compliant with" a strong throw accusations that the workers concerned), have privately contacted the law firm Paul Fanfani, specializing in labor law: "We challenged the order of service in January 2005, which unilaterally, the company informed workers of the time change, as clearly in contravention of Article 89Ccnl (national collective agreement for work), that this legitimate decisionea postpone a previous consultation union representatives. " This consultazioneinvece there never was. Once you reach this appeal to the Provincial Directorate of the work in spring 2005, appears to have been the same director Agata Muto, in her concluding remarks, to advise the company to restore the old afternoon shift. I note the refusal of the company, workers through their lawyers, convinced of their own right, continued the legal route. Also failed to attempt to settle prior to the cause, entered in the circuit of the process itself. In early September the first hearing in late October, the second and final: both sides have remained on their positions. With one key difference: the court Daniela Lococo, even after the strong opposition expressed by the workers' legal, respintola has legal claim made by the company of taking witness evidence in their favor. One point for workers who now rely on a new mediation attempt, this time reasonable so as to avoid the sentence scheduled for May 16th.
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