"Recognising workers' rights or it will be strike'. That is the ultimatum to employers today of work in the port sector by Filt Cgil Genoa and Liguria, Fit Cisl Liguria and Uiltrasporti Liguria on the occasion of the assembly of the transport trade union delegates centred on the on the renewal of the port workers' contract to which they have attended by about a hundred delegates as well as the secretaries of the three trade unions, Amedeo d'Alessio, Maurizio Diamante and Giuliano Galluccio. At the end of the meeting, the assembly asked for the Secretariats to continue the negotiation and to activate all the forms of struggle, including the proclamation of strikes.

Recalling that on 2 February, during the discussion with the employers, "the secretariats of Filt Fit Uiltrasporti have a clear distance from the counterparties with respect to the trade union economic demand for the three-year period 2024-2026 and this caused the breakdown of the negotiations', the delegations Ligurian trade unions pointed out that "there are about 20 thousand Italian dockers who are waiting for the renewal of the contract of the work'.

For Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti, "it is It is unthinkable that counterparties do not want to recognize a recovery purchasing power of wages, given the inflationary data over the last two years and the extraordinary performance recorded by the from the shipping industry and many port terminals from the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. In addition, too many accidents in the ports, some of them sadly deadly, like those of the In the past few years, which took place in Bari and Cagliari, the unions pointed out make tangible commitments on security needed to put the both the necessary regulatory update and the tools health and safety regulations.