Amazon strike Italy today March 22, the attractiveness of workers for customers – Corriere.it

75% average adherence, with peaks of 90% in some territories. These are the data reported by Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti on the first hit in the history of Amazon Italy started at 7am on Monday March 22nd and closes at 7am on March 23rd. a successful protest – explain the three unions – even beyond our expectations considering that many workers and many workers feel blackmailed because they have atypical contracts and that is why they saw the protest as a risk to their precarious job. The national strike was proclaimed by those who adhere to Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti to protest against the breakdown of national negotiations on the renewal of the second level contract. Thus expressed the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini: The strong adherence to the first strike in Italy by Amazon supply chain workers and the full success of the mobilization initiatives require responses from the multinational and the immediate reopening of negotiations. The multiple manifestations of solidarity that have taken place in these hours, also by exponents of politics and institutions, must now be transformed into concrete acts on the part of the government He was born in Parliament, reaffirm the principle that doing business in our country means recognizing the right to national and corporate collective bargaining and a correct system of union relations.

The appeal of workers to Amazon customers

The day began with a written appeal from workers to Amazon customers. For a day that we want to stop, we have to stop. a matter of respect for work, dignity of workers, safety for them and for you. Therefore, to win this battle of justice and civilization, we need the solidarity of all customers and all Amazon customers. L ‘appeal signed by approx. 40 thousand Amazonian workers, including drivers, employees of hubs and warehouses, who from the morning of Monday April 22 and for 24 hours will not work to guarantee the delivery of parcels.

The reasons for the strike

On the discussion table are the verification of loads and loads imposed work rates, the verification and negotiation of work shifts, the reduction of the working hours of the drivers, the salary increases, the social clause and the continuity of employment for all in case of change of contract or supplier, the stabilization fixed hours and temporary workers and the compliance with health and safety regulations, Covid compensation. The unions write to the striking consumers, to the people who, never like in the last year, have allowed us to receive all kinds of goods with total comfort in our homes. Who and those who deliver the packages, who even before prepare it for shipment: some 40 thousand workers who never stop. Those and those who, together with you, have allowed the boom in orders and consequently triggered the profits of Amazon, and therefore of billing, of the entire electronic commerce system.

The letter of the company to customers

The multinational also addresses customers. Commitment to our employees and those of our delivery service providers absolute priority, wrote in a letter from the country manager of Amazon Italy and Spain Mariangela Marseille, aimed at clients of the e-commerce platform on the national strike. At Amazon – continues – we respect the right of each individual to express their position (…). The health emergency has had a great impact on everyone’s life. We take very seriously our task of continuing to provide you with a useful service, as well as to protect the health and safety of all our staff, allowing you to buy and receive the products you need while staying home for as long as possible. We will continue to ensure that all of our staff are properly protected, we monitor changes and constantly update preventive measures day by day. We offer free testing and we will support the vaccination plan in every way, as soon as possible, to ensure that each person who visits our sites receives appropriate care.

The main ones in Piacenza, Milan, Genoa and Lazio

In Lombardy 5 thousand workers are involved. There are garrisons in front of the Amazon offices of Milan, Buccinasco, Mezzate, Origgio (Va), Burago di Molgora (Mb), Castegnato (Bs) and Casirate d’Adda (Bg). The protest could not be absent from what many have renamed the spacecraft, the Compliance center Piacenza that occupies the space of 14 soccer fields within a logistics center: the Amazon Mxp5 warehouse in Castel San Giovanni (Piacenza) in front of which a garrison and a demonstration take place. This is the first Amazon warehouse in Italy where the Commercial contract and not the logistics. TO GenoaThe protest concerns 300 couriers who work for external companies that have subcontracted the delivery of goods from the giant Amazon (Bs Trasporti, L&D and Jet Express). In addition to the strike, two were organized at the Amazon sorting center in Cornigliano protest garrisons ask for less demanding working conditions. In Lazio, involved the Passo Corese plant.

The Arzano case in Naples

Agitation also announcement Arzano (Naples). Cgil Naples and Campania, Filt-Cgil and Nidil-Cgil who, in a note, denounce the reluctance of Amazon and AssoEspressi to participate in the discussion table with the unions. Approximately 7 companies work as drivers at the Arzano site, forcing workers to exasperated turnover, since your commitment has a maximum duration of three months. In the periods in which the highest work peaks are registered, such as Easter, Christmas and during the bull runs, there are about 200 drivers who alternate every 3 months. the “Stabilized” are very few, since companies are born and die under contracts with Amazon, which are not continuous. Drivers, obliged to operate uninterruptedly for several weeks, regardless of the contractually established time, are obliged to carry out up to 200 daily deliveries, including holidays. Meanwhile, on its website, Amazon promises new jobs and the possibility of stabilization.

Temporary workers from Colleferro (Rome)

Another case is that of Colleferro, in the province of Rome. According to the Dire agency, there would be between a thousand and two thousand former temporary workers from Amazon not renewed and shipped home at the end of December. To date, no official estimates have been communicated on the supply contracts not extended in the new logistics center built in record time in the town of the province of Rome. Everything is silent even fromAdecco, the employment agency that is in charge of the selections and has hired the staff for the peak (period between the end of October and December, between the first days, Black Friday and Christmas): it does not respond to the request for official numbers sent from Dire news agency. In Colleferro, where the company announced the creation 500 permanent jobs within three years, discontent will spread among those who, a few months after opening, can already be considered ex.