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April 6, 2011
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- EDITORIAL
- In Genoa, there's less work and, apparently, many did not even want
- Appeals for the Coordination MSW Ship Repair for the Protection of the sector and the achievement of the sixth dry dock
 Where are the representatives of employees to invoke the execution of works needed to acquire new business or those already in the portfolio does not lose worry.
- Not that the unions traditionally have not the heart to the development of economic and productive activities, in fact. However, under the categories of business to urge institutions to adopt measures structural and regulatory infrastructure necessary to preserve and enhance the work.
- When trade unionists stop for a moment to deal mainly with the conditions under which the work is preserved or increased and, instead, implore the institutions to make decisions that allow businesses to do business, well then something is wrong.
 - It seems anomalous that the Coordination of Trade Union Representation of ship repairs in the port of Genoa appeals to institutions, through the press, so that the port is equipped with one-sixth of the dry dock can accommodate ships of more than 300 meters long, which - being in place a new race to the naval gigantism - already a large number of sailing the seas around the world. This work - I am convinced the trade unions - is necessary to prevent a hemorrhage of jobs in an industry that already suffers from a decline in ship repair and maintenance activities determined by the impact of economic crisis, global maritime industry.
- They emphasized, highlighted, whispered and shouted today at a press conference Alexander Vella, Secretary of FIM-CISL Genova, Joseph Durante, responsible Fiom-CGIL, ship repair, and other representatives of the trade union coordination. All tones are valid to try to figure out something to someone who clearly does not want to listen or pretend not to have intended.
- "We - confirmed Vella - say that the sixth basin has to be done." "Even companies - added Durante - need the sixth tank.Today Genoa has a dock for vessels being built in Genoa. "
- The vessels are talking about trade unionists are as cruise ships built in the establishment of Fincantieri in Genoa Sestri Ponente, in addition of course to many others that the port of Genoa lost annually due to the absence of a large dry dock. Coordination MSW ship repair is contrary all'ipotizzato moving ship repair in the now occupied by Fincantieri Sestri Ponente, a hypothesis that was tested - at least in words - even by Confindustria Genova. Or rather, are opposed to the loss of shipbuilding activities taking place at Fincantieri. Moreover, the fear is that, with a possible merger of the activities of shipbuilding and repair, "you lose jobs."
- What is sure - have argued (and we can not give them wrong) - is that "Genoa continues to lose jobs and can not afford to lose." Today - said Vella - Genoese ship repair in the district there are 3,000 workers who are affected by the crisis. In the field work more than 90 direct holdings, four of which have already closed down and another ten have made use of social welfare.
- "Entrepreneurs - continued Vella - do not wait the decisions of the institutions." The reference is to the recent landing in the port of Marseille Porto San Giorgio of Genoa, Genoa partner holding the Marine Industry (information of 21 April 2008), those found on French soil dry docks needed to develop their business. Recall that the other partner of the holding company, the T. Mariotti shipyard, has long chosen the Friuli Venezia Giulia (San Giorgio di Nogaro) to build the hulls of ships through its joint venture CI.MAR. Shipbuilding with the group Cimolai Spa
- The need for space and facilities is this - they explained the workers' representatives - that companies Genoese branch of ship repair were planning to find spaces in North Africa before the region became the scene of anti-government riots. The ability to keep these activities in Genoa would be: "what we say companies - confirmed - is that they have refused to work due to lack of facilities."
- The workers are asking the institutions to decide quickly where to place the sixth basin and urge a "compliant solution.""The intention - Vella explained - is not to make a committee against a committee." In recent days, in fact, was presented to the Open Day Committee was created to defend the port area near the city center and specifically against the sixth place in the dry dock ship repair. "We believe - had told the president of the city committee, Fulvio Silingardi - the port area near the city center is one of the most important economic and tourist resources of Genoa and therefore must be protected and saved from possible destruction, first of all the 'hypothesis of implementation of the sixth dry dock in the harbor town Duca degli Abruzzi. " However Silingardi had stated that the Open Door Committee considers the implementation of the sixth bowl is essential for the Genoese port economy and that the new movement of opinion had been formed to "ensure that the structure will find a location alternative to the proposal for a clear set of planning and environmental reasons we will not be underestimated. "
- When Joseph said that the unions are working with the Port Authority to eliminate or mitigate the disturbances that the sixth basin, and more generally the ship-repair activities can have on citizenship. Expressing willingness to discuss these issues across the board, but he stressed that the welfare of the community is inextricably linked to the economic livelihood of the city: "Consumers are there if there is work."
- If the job - as now - two plus two equals four, there seems to be in Genoa who is waiting for a result mathematically impossible.
- The call for workers to take a decision on who can benefit from anyway? Port Authority, confirmed the union. Late last year the President of the institution, Luigi Merlo, submitted a proposal to place the sixth basin Molo Giano, location against which the Committee has deployed Open Doors (information of 21 December 2010).However to date the authority of Palazzo San Giorgio has not yet decided anything merely to present a study which supported the need for the sixth bowl (information of 15 March 2011).
- If the institutions appear to hesitate, workers have clear ideas "in recent years - blamed Durante - Genoa has lost jobs for policy decisions." "There are strategic choices to be made - he added - you have to put the industry at the center of politics."
- A reminder, one of Durante and other trade unionists, uncontroversial, reasonable and sensible, especially in a time of grave economic crisis like the current one. If not made in Genoa, the ship-repair activities "will still be carried out elsewhere in Italy or abroad - Vella has considered - and this is usually not good." "This - he said when materializing a real fear already - become a social problem."
- "It's hard to explain to a worker because they do not decide," he concluded Durante.The institutions - the Port Authority in the head - are aware that they must preserve the center of excellence for ship repair in Genoa and I agree in wanting to protect and enhance. But no one decides. Why? Yet we do not know farcene a reason.
- Brown Bellio
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