The CGIL of Messina, with the confederal secretary Stefania Radici, has signed an agreement with the Employment Center, represented by the manager Giacomo De Francesco, and the Chamber of Commerce, represented by the general secretary Paola Sabella, to share actions aimed at improving the quantity and quality of employment in Messina. The agreement is part of the Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a network of territorial actors to encourage the intersection between job supply and demand.
The objective is to intercept those who are without work and accompany them towards orientation, training and job placement processes, with particular attention to those who are in a condition of greater vulnerability and more distant from the employment services system: young unemployed people, young people discouraged by fruitless searches for work, young people who neither study nor work, people who left the education system early, women who, despite being available to work, have stopped looking for work, workers expelled from the job market due to crises and company restructuring, people in conditions of economic hardship, people with a migratory background.
Radici: “Improve the quantity and quality of work available in the area”
“A collaboration – points out the secretary of the CGIL Messina, Radici, who follows labor policies – to improve the quantity of work and the quality of work available in the territory. On the one hand we want to bring information and opportunities closer to those who need it, accompanying them in the work activation processes, on the other we intend to promote an improvement that passes primarily through the correct application of rules and contracts, against the spread of illegal and irregular work and the use of pirated contracts, i.e. not signed by the most representative organizations and employers, but also by the use of tools for work inclusion, continuous training and corporate and contractual welfare that favor participation in work, in particular of young people and women, the updating of skills, work-life balance, growth paths and organizational well-being, also understood as a tool for the competitiveness of companies. In this sense, activities will be carried out to match job supply and demand, monitoring, information and awareness activities inside and outside the workplace. Finally, the agreement intends to promote processes of analysis and comparison on the state and prospects of the labor market, whose development is based on the ability of the productive fabric to renew and retrain, also taking on the challenges of the digital and ecological transition, as part of an overall growth strategy that valorises and systematizes local resources and opportunities. Many, too many young graduates leave Messina every year in what Svimez has recently defined as the exodus of young people towards the Center and North – underlines the secretary of the CGIL – in the face of the disappearance of young people from the population, we must collaborate to give their opportunities for living and dignified work in our territory. Even the internal areas are experiencing a process of emptying, which, however, can be stopped with policies and resources aimed at accompanying the construction of new economies, including communities. This agreement constitutes an important commitment to converge actions and projects towards the shared objective of promoting sustainable and inclusive development for Messina”.