In a note, USB Mare e Porti denounced that it had not been admitted to participate in the renewal table of the collective agreement national port work despite the representation of the was in accordance with the parties' statements. In addition referring to the provisions of the draft agreement signed in recent days ( of 8 and 8 October 2024), USB Mare e Porti contested the announced recovery purchasing power of port workers' wages and ways in which port workers have been called upon to express their vote: if "in Genoa, that is, the only port where the minutes were made public the result of the 15 Companies involved: out of 2,035 eligible workers, they voted 1,437 workers (70.61% of CEOs) and 922 (64.16%) have joined the expressed against the hypothesis of an agreement, rejecting it resoundingly" - said the trade union organization - "to Trieste there are no official data of the individual companies but it is only cumulative data of the ports of Trieste and Monfalcone where the yes to the contract prevailed, but the news from Trieste report the affirmation of the no in the largest companies Adriafer, TMT and ALPT. In Livorno - USB denounced again Sea and Ports - the ALP company was not voted on ex art.17 with the RSU that have convened autonomous votes that are certifying the no to the CCNL by a large majority. In Terminal Darsena Tuscany (TDT), seven out of eight workers abstained from voting and in other companies the turnout was very low, although in In these cases, the yes prevails. At the port of Gioia Tauro and Palermo There does not appear to have been any vote. At this moment there are no data from the ports of Venice, Ravenna, La Spezia, Savona, Civitavecchia, Salerno, Naples, Gioia Tauro».

"What emerges - continues the note - is a unlawful consultation in the discussion of the CCNL whose application concerns all port workers and should be voted for by everyone. This operation has been brought to the without a common method and in some cases without even a official voting, as in the case of uncalled assemblies, of assemblies called without verification of numbers, votes without quorum and other such amenities. In any case, it emerges clearly a vast dissent against this hypothesis of a national contract, which expresses dissatisfaction in particular with the economic data of a agreement dropped from above". "We are sure - concludes the note from USB Mare e Porti - that the CCNL hypothesis will be considered approved in the worst trade union tradition of this country".