On March 20, 2015, the company called a meeting with potential interested parties for a voluntary transfer to Bologna. Garavina, Fornasari, and Gessi were present: the latter after having contacted more than 100 drivers by phone to gauge their interest.
First of all, the transfer incentive is quantified, which will be 10,000 euros net for the period from September 2015 to December 2018. The return to Fe is guaranteed after this period. In the first 2 months, the travel allowance of 46.48 will be paid and in the third month the remainder will be in the paycheck. The total amount will be subject to separate taxation. It will not have to be returned in the event of early resignation. Those who have at least 5 years of seniority in the company can be transferred. If not all have been transferred in September, the period will be postponed by the corresponding number of months (Dec 15 – March 19, for example). There is no guarantee that the Ferrarese warehouse will be able to absorb all the transfers (the most convenient for those coming from Ferrara), but the company will inform itself in the next few days of the potentially available positions. The method adopted will be that those who sign first get the positions…
The training will be time-based, so you probably won't be trained on all the lines but only on the main ones, given the limited time you'll be there. For those who don't have the E, it could be an opportunity to attend the course and get it.
Those who move acquire the Bologna regulations in full, 90 rests, allowances and production bonus included. Upon returning, they return to the starting situation or, if modified, the one that will be in use at the time in Ferrara.
For former Fer members who have 10 more days of vacation than former Acft members, they will have them again upon their return.
They are not available to guarantee the assignment of shifts that can be carried out by going to Bologna with line 356, as requested by our organization. It will be necessary to organize with shift changes, which they declare to be easy to find, given the large number of drivers. We also asked if it is possible to have free circulation on Tper trains, but given that the Fe-Bo route is under the jurisdiction of Trenitalia, this is not possible.
The company has given time until Easter to sign. At least 6 or 7 people have declared themselves available to sign immediately in case the assignment warehouse is Ferrarese. The Head of Personnel TPer – Dr. Garavina requires the mandatory presence of a union representative at the time of signing: those who asked to be able to do without because they are not registered have received a negative response.
In this regard, it is recalled that the transfer of personnel to Bologna was approved by the Trade Unions only as a residual solution after having already implemented all other strategies to recover the missing million euros for the Ferrara basin's budget balance. This is because losing drivers in Ferrara means handing over service to private individuals, a measure that they would like to use as little as possible or not at all.
Fit Cisl reiterates its commitment to fully respect the agreement signed on February 4, which provided for the implementation of a series of agreed actions, with the intent and objective of eliminating the deficit by 2016.
