The unions highlight the very high participation in the strike in the Italian ports for the renewal of the national collective agreement expired on 31 December. Emphasizing that the protest, It began on Wednesday and ended today after the demonstration national union in Genoa, has reached very high peaks of adhesion, the Secretary General and the National Secretary of Uiltrasporti, Claudio Tarlazzi and Giuliano Galluccio, expressed a Thank you to all the workers of the ports "who They sacrificed their working days to prove the importance of this contract renewal. Salary recovery, Security and greater protection, they stressed, are the from which we cannot retreat and we hope that the parties will are now ready to return to the negotiating table in in an effective and collaborative way, otherwise we are ready to continue our protest."

The national secretary of the Filt Cgil, Amedeo D'Alessio, pointed out that "the ports today are practically all at a standstill with up to 100% adhesion in some airports. Today," he added, from all the Italian ports on strike and from the demonstration Genoa, where about 1,500 people participated, arrives There is a strong demand to reopen negotiations in a concrete way for the the renewal of the national contract, bridging the gaps both on the economic part, but also in relation to certain issues specifications that pertain to the regulatory part. Among our D'Alessio recalled that there are demands for a fair wage, to unblock the Decree for the Accompanying Fund for Early Retirement for the dockers, the recognition of arduous work, strengthen all contractual instruments relating to health and safety and finally to make our contribution to the reform of the ports'.