Highlighting "the almost total adherence by of the workers of the System Authority Port of Naples and Salerno" on the day of the strike of last Thursday proclaimed by the regional secretariats of Uiltrasporti, Filt-Cgil and Fit-Cisl ( of 8 January 2025), the Campania representation of the workers of the UIL has strongly condemned the statements issued by the top management of the Port Authority "with which - denounced the trade union organization - they tried in vain to belittle the real reasons for the strike through lies and inaccurate statements". «Annunziata and Grimaldi (respectively president and secretary general of the Port Authority, ed.) - said the union organization in a note - they support that the union protests derive from the need to correct and recover, by the administration, alleged "economic benefits previously assigned on the basis of misleading and arbitrary interpretations that in fact weigh on the budget of the entity and therefore on general taxation" and that "this responsibility cannot fall on This administration which is required, by law, to operate in the sole and exclusive interest of public affairs". According to the regional secretariat of Uiltrasporti, they are "still more serious are the statements of the secretary general, Giuseppe Grimaldi, who claims that the strike would be based on the objective of not recovering "some emoluments that are "erroneously" given to workers, especially to the union representatives, sums that will have to be recovered".

Denouncing that the statements of the top management of the Port Authority are "unfounded and inappropriate", Uiltrasporti Campania explained that the real reasons behind the protest action they begin by demanding "respect for and application of the national collective labour agreement for ports, in particular as regards the 'safeguard clause' and the establishment of a "third element" of remuneration, provided for in the addendum to the national contract precisely for the employees of the Port Authorities. On the merits of ultractivity - the trade union organization - it is not understood the Perplexity of the Board of Auditors and the Administration since the "guarantor" descriptive relationship of the financial coverage, prepared by the Director of the Office Financial, Instrumental Resources and Tenders of the entity, has well clarified that the "theoretical increase of 2027", although not "calculable... will have to represent a guideline for the criteria for preparing the 2027 budget"». "With regard to the third element," the note continues, "beyond of the Authority's specious perplexity on the reabsorbability or not of the same, it is specified that the entity has not really posted the sums relating to the establishment of this institution and which on more than one occasion has represented to the trade unions that the same, having been identified at the time of the establishment of the Port Authority, it would therefore not be due. Furthermore, there is no evidence of full implementation of the CCNL since the first tranches of the planned increases, in the form of welfare".

«With regard to company bargaining (it has not yet been the renewal table has been open even though it has expired for a year) - also explained Uiltrasporti Campania - the administration has disregarded the Istat adjustment of the amounts due provided for by the 2021-2023 decentralised bargaining, signed and signed by the same top management, with the endorsement of the Board of Auditors and of the management committee. The hesitation in the application of the contract signed by them prompted the top management to request, months ago, to the State Attorney's Office an opinion on the debt of the aforementioned adaptation, failing to maintain administrative autonomy and management of the administration and raising doubts on contractual good faith. The administration knew what was going on subscribing or already imagined that he would not give you application?". "Without going into the merits of the questionable applicability of the "Brunetta" - continued the union referring to the reform of the functioning introduced in 2008-2009 by the then Minister for Public Administration, Renato Brunetta - Uiltrasporti challenges the Port Authorities that the body gives it a distorted application by curtailing items that, as per the CCNL, make part of the basic economic treatment".

The note goes on to underline that "Uiltrasporti does not can only appreciate a "sober" management of public spending, flaunted by this body. Given that the Authority shall have financial autonomy and shall not be burdens the state budget - specified the union - not We can accept that we are talking about tax damage for emoluments due to workers, while the management practiced in recent years four years since these summits has had no limits on spending on external consultancy, purchases and sponsorships of any kind typologies unrelated to the port. It is unacceptable, also, that public money is used in a way that discriminatory: in the meeting of 25 November last, the Committee of management has delegated to the Ministry the opinion on the application of the CCNL of employees and at the same time, with a resolution, the only not published on the institution's website, increased the bonuses to managers without a negotiation table being underway and without a regular proceedings, among other things, on objectives already achieved. To request for civic access to these documents, submitted some time ago, The administration is still silent. The real waste and the real damage to the public taxation are those put in place by the current managers of the Port Authority who, holders of exorbitant salaries for four years, have been dangerously exposing the institution to inevitable disputes of a remunerative and non-remunerative nature".

According to Uiltrasporti Campania, "there is a serious state of widespread malaise among all employees" of the Port Authority which - for the union - would be "due in particular to a vexatious attitude on the part of the top management of the administration, condemned, moreover, for indirect discrimination against a disabled employee. The results of the well-being survey also strongly requested by the trade unions, for example today, eight months after the administration of the questionnaires - underlines the note - are secret".

Reiterating that Uiltrasporti Campania does not share the position assumed by the top management of the Port System Authority of the Sea Tirreno Centrale, the general secretary of the Campania union, Antonio Aiello specified that, however, Uiltrasporti Campania is available "to a discussion on these issues, hoping to to be able to establish a constructive dialogue and not to clash with the usual rubber wall raised in the last four years by the top management of the Authority".