After a negotiation between the Tper company and the trade unions Fit Cisl, Filt Cgil, Uiltrasporti,
Faisa Cisal and Ugl autoferrotranvieri lasted many months, we reached the strike. Every other
the attempt made did not lead to the desired results.
The discussion started with the expiry of the public transport service contract for the basin
of Ferrara and the forecasts for closing the 2014 budget with a deficit of 1 million Euro.
The Board of Directors of Tper has decided not to sign a loss-making contract and has
raised the issue of how to recover the budget balance. The proposals put forward by the top
companies have obviously been to act on the staff by handing over part of the service to private individuals
and the consequent transfer of 40 drivers to Bologna. To the detriment of moving the work to personal
with lower economic treatment and fewer guaranteed rights, the mockery of the
transfer of drivers not for lack of work but to save the company money.
The trade unions contested this hypothesis and, when called into question, brought forward proposals
on rationalisations that would not have such a heavy impact on drivers, ALL REJECTED BY
TPER! The company has even proposed changes to the shifts of travelling staff, with
increase in driving times contained in shifts.
The negotiation led to damage limitation, reaching an agreement on incentivized exodus
of personnel close to retirement and voluntary transfers to Bologna, these too incentivised.
We managed to obtain a small increase in the price paid by the municipalities of the Province for the
public transport, a fee still very low and often not paid by the Authorities in the past
Local. Unfortunately, the reality remains of a catchment area that, despite the increase in passengers
transported and ticket and season ticket sales, continues to be heavily penalised by
political choices that over time have not favored its development, but rather have facilitated it
private transport, a highly anachronistic trend for the times we are living in. Among the latest
unfortunate choices of the Municipality of Ferrara, there was that of closing the ticket office of Rampari S.Paolo
to grant the building to a bar, leaving travellers without the possibility of staying for several months
purchase travel tickets on site and still without a waiting room or toilets.
In the end, the service contract was extended and Tper closed the 2014 financial year with a profit of €
2,600,000, but this does not seem to count and Ferrara continues to be pointed out as a basin in
loss, even within a single profitable company. The consequence is that from 1 October 8 shifts in
province were sold to private companies and 8 drivers have since then been forced to
day to come to work in Ferrara even from Comacchio and Codigoro, with all the inconveniences that this entails
result. The contrary opinion of the trade unions, which reject the logic of always doing
pay workers the price for questionable management and political choices that go against common sense.
FIT-FILT-UILT-FAISA-UGL have jointly proclaimed
4 HOUR STRIKE
of all TPER personnel in the Ferrara area, including offices and fixed installations
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
FROM 10.30 TO 14.30.
