2023-11-03 15:29:13
A call. An invitation to show up at the new headquarters – presumably from another company, the “Crc” – at eight in the morning on the day of the dead. To work, but in 12, instead of 19leaving out of suddeness seven employees – who knows which ones – at home. Kafkaesque reasons that led the postmen and the office workers “Grs” Of Battipaglia to cross his arms. Indefinite strike: until the two companies summon the unions and workers’ representatives – formally unaware of everything – between Piana del Sele and Picentini (the area served by the employees extends from Pontecagnano Faiano until Capaccio Paestum, including the hinterland) no one will receive registered letters, judicial documents and the like anymore. An obligatory choice for the workers of the “GRS”, the last – but essential – wheel of that gigantic cart which is the delivery of similar documents. A service which, at least in Campania, has long been the prerogative of a shipping giant: it is written Nexiveit is read Italian postthe public company (the Ministry of Economy and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, together, are majority shareholders) which acquired the former private Milanese company between 2020 and 2021.
The “cut” of employees
The endless universe of envelopes and letters, however, is made up of contracts and sub-contracts. Region you go, company you find. And in the terra felix Nexive’s partner par excellence is a large Neapolitan company: it’s called “Crc”. And the endless territory that extends between Know e Sessa Aurunca, in turn, is fragmented into areas, subcontracted to other operators. On the way Adige in Battipaglia, for example, for years there was the headquarters of “Grs”, the company – 19 employees: two clerks and 17 postmen – which deals with the delivery of registered letters and judicial documents between Piana del Sele and Picentini. Since yesterday, however, the headquarters has been in via Brodolini, in the heart of the industrial area. Not the “Grs”: judging from the signs posted at least to reserve parking, the company should be the “Crc”, intending, from what – informally – learned from the workers, to internalize the service. And the resources so far to the “Grs”. Some: only 12, according to the announcements – informal ones too – on the eve. Which? «Fors casting lots» quips one of those present. Appointment set for 8am on Thursday.
The workers’ all-out protest
And the workers were there, but for a protest. However, for the company – whatever it is – there was no one. «We are here – he said Ilaria D’Amato, provincial secretary Slc Cgil – to say enough to layoffs and job reductions. At “Grs” there are 19 employees, they have set a call for 12: seven would have been left without a job.” Hence the obligatory path of the strike: «Nineteen are “GRS” workers and 19 will remain». Just because, he adds Salvatore Cicalese, Slc regional manager, “there is no reduction in activities”. The trade unionist reconstructs what happened: «Without union meetings, a company that has contracted this order communicated to the company with which it collaborated that it was opening a new office and that they had to present themselves at this new office. Of the 19, however, only 12 had to show up». The strike will continue «until there is a meeting with the two companies.” Everyone around the table, for this and other issues. Like the two- and four-hour contracts (there are days in which the total registered letters fluctuate between 800 and a thousand) and many other critical issues: «Do you know that we use our own means?», is the rhetorical question of a postman. Then he explains better: «We deliver by moving with personal vehicles, praying to God that they never break down. And we provide the fuel».
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