This afternoon in Rome, in front of the Ministry of Education, Infrastructure and Transport, a presidium of the port workers to ask for the establishment of the Fund to accompany the exodus. Announcing the initiative, Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti pointed out that for five years in the expects that what has been signed in the renewal of the national collective bargaining agreement and planned by law. "The issue - denounced the trade unions - can no longer be postponed, especially in the world of port work where activities are carried out complex, dangerous and exhausting and therefore the accompanying fund to the exodus becomes an indispensable tool for achieving of the requirements for retirement".

"The workers of the ports - they added Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti - they can't wait any longer in vain an instrument that ports desperately need Why the competitiveness of a seaport measure on the efficiency and specialization of the workforce".

Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica and Uniport announced who will participate with their representation in the event for the failure to set up the Fund for the early retirement of port workers which - they recalled - is provided for by a a rule, desired and shared by the parties, also through an agreement formalized during the negotiations of the previous renewal of the CCNL, a rule in force since 2021 but never implemented.

Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica and Uniport have highlighted that the establishment of the Fund is in the interest of the system production and organization of port companies and was designed to facilitate generational change, in the awareness that a sector undergoing strong transformation and transition like the port one needs to accompany change, the inclusion of new resources and professional profiles, the protection of those workers who in some tasks cannot be thought of as having are employed until the pension requirements are reached.

Remembering that it is not usual for associations representatives of companies demonstrate together with the trade unions, Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica and Uniport have explained that "the message we want to give is that, where interests are common and are represented with transparency and balance make sense to do it together". "This obviously does not take away - the employers' associations specified - that where aspects of divergence remain, such as on the issue of Litigation for holiday allowances, the positions remain distant and evidently sharply opposed, but this also makes part of the dialectic of industrial relations and how We responsibly intend to affirm our role and the interests of the companies we represent: companies that are made of people".