Monday, December 1st at 3 PM, rally in Rome in front of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport headquarters
Rome – The unions are taking to the field to demand, after a wait that has lasted five years, the establishment of the exit accompaniment fund. “Port work is fundamental and must be protected,” write Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uil Trasporti, who have organized a demonstration on December 1st at 3 PM in Rome, in front of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to say enough to delays and demand its immediate establishment.
“It is a commitment both signed in the renewal of the national collective labor agreement and a legal provision, which however have not been enough to make it enforceable,” write the secretaries of the three unions. A rule that everyone agrees on, but which over the years has never materialized. “In the meantime, the workers, as well as the companies – the unions add – are paying the expected economic allocation but, to date, due to continuous buck-passing between the competent ministries and an unjustified absence of politics, the Fund, which could partially resolve the system’s critical issues, is not seeing the light of day.”
After all this time, and with a pension system “that continues to make it difficult to meet the requirements for retirement,” for the unions the issue “can no longer be postponed.” Not to mention that the fund could also be used for the professional retraining of port workers in view of the introduction of automation and artificial intelligence in port operations.
“The port workers cannot continue to wait in vain for a tool that the ports desperately need – concludes the union statement – because the competitiveness of a maritime terminal is measured by the efficiency and specialization of the workforce as the main infrastructure of a port system.”
The employer associations will also issue their own statement.
