Today in Rome, at the headquarters of Confitarma, signed the draft agreement for the renewal of the contract single national collective of the shipping industry, with effective from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, which will now be submitted to the consultation of the workers of the sector before validation. Uiltrasporti explained that the renewal, in addition to salary recovery with an increase in treatment overall economic situation that exceeds +15% of which 202 euros of tabular increase on average parameter (boatswain), also provides for important innovations in terms of legislation and health and safety. In addition, the constitution has been defined a system of supplementary health care for all seafarers, able to assist them in any part of the world.

Specifying that the draft agreement signed today comes after about 70 meetings and a year of work, Filt Cgil recalled that the renewal of the single national contract affects about 70 thousand seafarers between EU and non-EU nationals. Representation of the CGIL for the transport sector specified that the increase in total of 202 euros will be paid in three tranches, from 1 July 2024 equal to 80.80 euros, from 1 July 2025 equal to 60.20 euros and from 1 July 2026 equal to 60.20 euros. For the period of contractual vacation of six months, the contract having expired on 31 December 2023, a one-off amount of 380 euros disbursed in July 2024 for an amount of 200 euros and January 2025 for an amount of 180 euros. From the point of view of economic benefits, moreover, increases are expected on social security (1% additional) and on the equalisation element in the event of absence of second-level bargaining (1% additional).

"Despite the serious difficulties experienced in this economic and geopolitical point of view - have highlighted the Secretary General and the National Secretary of Uiltrasporti, Marco Verzari and Giuliano Galluccio and the manager of the national maritime department Giuseppe Nocerino - the one achieved today represents an important result in a sector fundamental for the national economy such as the maritime one. Through a unity of intent it was possible achieve a positive synthesis that in addition to being a point of An important start, it represents an investment for companies for workers and for the entire country. We hope that the same unity can be expressed now even at ministerial tables to arrive at certain rules in the interest of the entire maritime world and all its workers".

Filt Cgil noted that for the regulatory part, most of the sections have been renewed and improved, providing for also mechanisms for the stabilization of employment relationships and introducing the gender protocol. To be emphasized - he specified The trade union - also the economic and regulatory agreement reached on the professional family of students to whom she was significantly the salary.

For the secretary general of the Filt Cgil, Stefano Malorgio, "This agreement is the conclusion of a great deal of work that holds together different companies, recovers purchasing power for the seafarers, improves the conditions of and qualifies and stabilizes work. It also opens the season of the renewals in transport that we hope it will now undergo an acceleration also in the other sectors where negotiations have started".