Monday, September 17, 2007

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Vodafone outsources, unions protest outsourcing

The decision affects its offices in Rome, Milan, Ivrea, Padua and Naples

The Guindani announces its intention to divest of a branch business involving 914 employees: workers 'agitation

ROME - Vodafone has a strategic plan "development-oriented', but which involves the outsourcing of certain back-office activities and sacrifice (ie transfer to other companies) by almost a tenth of the 10 thousand employees of the Italian branch. A strategy of outsourcing who does not like unions, which are immediately in a state of agitation. After many rumors about the AD group, Piero Guindani, has officially informed the union representatives it wishes to sell a line of business - and their employees - to Comdata partner (who works with the phone company since 1996 and has 4 thousand employees and approximately 200 million annual turnover). Guindani writes in a letter sent to employees Monday morning Vodafone, the operation in the study (which was the procedure for trade union consultation), "involving 914 specialist colleagues to support the administrative processes of the customer and risk management credit, the Milan, Ivrea, Padua, Rome and Naples. "
AD Guindani tones are reassuring the : Comdata, the manager writes, "is an Italian company for success ', where' the approach to people is based on the same values \u200b\u200bof Vodafone, with particular emphasis on training and professional development. " Still, the 914 employees of Vodafone do not seem happy about the news: the unions after a long spontaneous assembly of workers on Monday morning, have expressed their dissent. Next Saturday in Rome, the employees of the offices involved in the sale of the company felt in the Via del Corso, in front of the Vodafone One store. Meanwhile, workers will begin "an action of slowdown in activity - explain the unions - until further notice, creating obvious problems for the company."
Guindani, in recent days, after submitting a business plan that focuses on the development of traditional activities the mobile business and mobile broadband and fixed-mobile integrated services for households and firms (confirming, inter alia, the interest in Tele2), has repeatedly defended the project: "We received an offer for 'acquisition of a part of activities relating to customer care, "now performed by the call center, he said, but" it is certain is that we will keep all activities in direct contact with clients: assistance and trade promotion, strategic activities in the future. " "In any case - said Guindani about Comdata - any such agreement must be consistent with stable conditions of work."

Source: Corriere della Sera - 09/17/2007

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