Verona, “There is a lack of masks” for the works in the Arena: an alarm from the trade unions
There is a shortage of “masks” at the Arena Foundation. These are those workers who control the entrances and accompany the public to their place. Room staff, in fact. Often young. Almost always with short contracts, for the property. After Gardaland, the other temple of seasonal work in Verona also begins to yield. And the lack of personnel in the service sector is felt there too. The opera festival started last Friday with Carmen’s premiere.
“The reply”
On Tuesday the question about the trade unions intervened, data in hand. In a note, the Slc CGIL secretary, Mario Lumastro, spoke of “a truly alarming amount of staff in all sectors this year», But also of« worrying conditions and workloads »as well as« few tests carried out by the artistic and technical staff ». According to the union, the Arena Foundation “moved late in the calls, a situation that forced the technicians and the artistic staff to accept other offers”. The human resources director of the Luca Migliore Foundation responds to the request by speaking of shortages of technical personnel quantifiable in «few units per job“, And takes as an example the stage technicians, where the missing workers foreseen only 5 out of 64, therefore less than 10%”. Few units which, however, have been “unavailable”.
A surge in infections
“The Foundation has activated all possible channels but we have not been able to complete the planned sizing – he continues – some vacant positions are difficult to fill, in addition it must also be said that in this period there are no candidates. Not only that: the waivers shortly after the start of the contracts were much more numerous than in previous years “. The cause? In many cases «Covid, because also from us there is a surge in infections: in one department, for example, the head and four deputies are missing ».
Only at the beginning
As for the problem raised by Slc Cgil, Migliore has no hesitation: “This year live concerts have also resumed and it happened to have a few days less than usually for assembly tests, but it only happened in the phase of the first two shows. Let’s talk about exceptional situations. And the editing of the next Nabucco started last Sunday and the opera summer, it must be moved, is really relevant for the city ».
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June 22, 2022 (change June 22, 2022 | 19:29)
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