Maritime transport, on the 15th Cisal-Federmar garrison against professional certification

Trade union presidium of Cisal – Federmar in Porta Pia on Wednesday against the new decree on the training and professional certification of seafarers. “During the implementation of the European Directive (EU) 2019/1159 – notes the Secretary General Alessandro Pico – we reported to the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility that the legislative decree scheme, as formulated, would have prevented maritime personnel to keep the job and made it impossible for shipping companies operating in the coastal transport sector to train crews, with consequent shutdown of the fleet “. Faced with the silence of the ministry, Pico underlines, “we had reported the matter to the parliamentary commissions called to give their opinion on the provision, documenting how other member countries, unlike Italy, have effectively protected the maritime personnel sector. that we had reported with respect to article 2 of the draft provision, the 8th Commission to the Senate in the expression of the opinion delivered in the session of 6 October 2021 had formally invited the Government to convene the representatives of the interested parties, precisely for the purposes of the revision and reformulation of article 2 of the draft measure “. Well, in the face of all this, the confederal secretary Cisal Alessandro Pico who follows the question and the national secretariat of Federmar denounce, “we learned on November 4 that the same day the ministry brought the draft legislative decree to the Council of Ministers for the final approval, without previously calling the shipowners’ associations and trade union representatives as per invitation from the 8th Senate Commission and despite having asked the Ministry for a special table to be convened by a note dated 7 October 2021 “. For Cisal Federmar “passing a provision in silence by disregarding the invitation of the 8th Senate Commission is a very serious and disturbing fact, especially when jobs are at risk as in this case. We are, to say the least, bewildered by the silence of the Minister of Sustainable Mobility Infrastructures, Enrico Giovannini, remained deaf to our repeated requests to meet. All this creates the doubt that on this issue there are personal interests within the various branches of the Ministry. With the trade union demonstration we reaffirm our firm opposition to the Decree and we ask Minister Giovannini to immediately call a table for its urgent modification “.