“Monday, December 1, at 3 PM, a gathering in Rome, in front of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport headquarters, of port workers to demand the concrete establishment of the exit support fund.” This was announced by the confederal unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti: “For 5 years in the ports we have been waiting for what was signed in the renewal of the Ccnl and provided for by law to be implemented.”
“The issue – explain the trade union organizations – can no longer be postponed, especially in the world of port labor where complex, dangerous and grueling activities are carried out and therefore the exit support fund becomes an indispensable tool for achieving retirement requirements.” The battle has been going on for years but so far has never produced the desired results. “The port workers – state Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti in conclusion – can no longer wait in vain for a tool that the ports desperately need because the competitiveness of a maritime terminal is measured by the efficiency and specialization of the workforce.”
The employers’ associations Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica and Uniport have also announced that they will participate in the demonstration with their own representatives. In a note they write that “the establishment of the Fund is provided for by a rule, wanted and shared by the parties, also through an agreement formalized during the negotiations for the previous renewal of the Ccnl, a rule in force since 2021 but never implemented. The establishment of the fund – they add – is in the interest of the productive and organizational system of port companies and was designed to facilitate generational turnover, in the awareness that a sector undergoing strong transformation and transition like the port sector needs to accompany change, the insertion of new resources and professional profiles, the protection of those workers who in some tasks cannot be expected to be employed until they reach pension requirements.”
The associations of terminals and port companies in their note add: “It is not usual for associations representing companies to demonstrate together with trade union organizations but the message we want to give is that, where interests are common and are represented with transparency and balance, it makes sense to do it together. This obviously does not mean that, where aspects of divergence remain, such as on the issue of litigation over holiday pay, the positions remain distant and evidently clearly opposed, but this too is part of the dialectic of industrial relations and how we responsibly intend to affirm our role and the interests of the companies we represent: companies that are made of people.”
