Palermo, municipal offices without air conditioning reduced hours

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Noon, July 13, 2022 – 5:33 pm

There is no air conditioning in the municipal offices in via Ausonia

by Roberto Chifari

There is no air conditioning in the municipal offices in via Ausonia.
The heat pumps failed in both summer and winter, the first floor flooding in June and the collapse of the false ceiling, the largely old and often out of order toilets, elevator problems.
The unions continue to write to the mayor and to the manager of the Polo reporting the breakdowns and asking for a meeting.
«Purchased during the Cammarata syndication, this building immediately presented various critical issues, which it was faced with with buffer interventions and with very little ordinary and extraordinary scheduled maintenance – says Lillo Sanfratello, secretary of Fp Cgil Palermo -.
Employees continue to work in an impossible and uncomfortable environmental situation, all aggravated by the hacker attack on the Municipality’s IT service and by the rise in infections ».
«The structural problems recur every season.
In winter the employees suffered from the cold, in the absence of heating, and now they work in the heat, deprived of the minimum comfort.
All this – adds Sanfratello – cannot find any justification in the economic unavailability and in the blame for the role of employer, as the jurisprudence has already clarified ».

Disruptions also in other municipal offices.
At the command of the municipal police the air conditioners are broken and a working time with smart working has been set up from mid-morning to save workers the hottest hours in the office.
“Despite the numerous interventions of the FP CGIL, the costs are the services , which work only thanks to the spirit of self-denial of the employees, sacrificial victims of the institutional blame game – continues Lillo Sanfratello of the Fp Cgil Palermo – In this same paradoxical situation there are many workplaces of the municipal administration, which do not meet the requirements of the consolidated act on job security and citizenship must suffer the umpteenth inefficiency of a limping public administration ».
As told by the union itself, until the new council takes office, the mayor will not meet anyone.
The council and the city council will not be operational before next week.
«Last month the engine broke down at the Polo and there was no water reaching the upper floors.
There is no maintenance, all the municipal offices are in a situation of suffering », concludes Sanfratello.

13 July 2022 | 17:33

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