Tomorrow's 24-hour strike has been confirmed Vado Gateway terminal staff at the port of Vado Ligure proclaimed by Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti to protest - they had underlined the trade unions by announcing the shutdown of the work - against the unscrupulous use of part-time and precariousness. Not In fact, yesterday's cooling table was successful convened by the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Western.

The trade unions, in view of the meeting, had reiterated the unacceptability that the variability of traffic, an intrinsic characteristic of port work, affects the rights and determines the precariousness of employees. The unions had highlighted that the port system, in fact, is equipped with tested and functioning tools which, with due social protections, is able to cope with traffic peaks through temporary work carried out by Article 17 of the Law 84/94, which regulates the provision of temporary port work, or through the flexibility provided by the CCNL ports. Filt Cgil had denounced that the choice of the terminal operator, on the other hand, is going in the sense of introducing atypical forms of flexibility that contrast with the existing work model in the port of Savona.

Disappointed by the outcome of the meeting, Vado Gateway remarked that the use of part-time work up to a maximum of 20% of the workforce is provided for in Article 63 of the collective agreement National Labour Council which was signed by Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti and that this appeal does not enter into in any way contrary to Article 17 of Law 84/94. In addition, the terminal operator recalled that the work at part-time is also practiced in the terminals of many other Italian ports.

The Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators participated again, alongside his associate, at the convened by the Port Authority and, referring to the meeting, the director of Assiterminal, Alessandro Ferrari, complained that "the confrontation was surreal at times. Once it is clear that the institution of part-time and fixed-term contracts are part of the employment contract of the ports also for personnel working in quay (yes - Ferrari pointed out - there was need to discuss this), the reassurances that the company provided on the possibility of transforming these full-time and permanent employment relationships upon occurrence of certain operating conditions (volumes of goods) - added the director of the association - was not enough to the other party. Sorry to call it that, counterpart, but - he Ferrari - at the moment when the level of the does not move from a stubborn claim to enter on the merits of the organization of work only to recall ideologically different "models" as the only points of reference, it is evident that there cannot be opposition. All this - denounced the director of Assiterminal - in a context where regulatory and contractual provisions are fully enforced. That in 2026 part-time is considered a form of precariousness, I believe it is anachronistic and that misguided to oppose the free organization of the work of the companies to temporary work supply models (port companies), especially in contexts, such as Savona, in which data and statistics show that growing the Terminal, the port company grows. The dialectic in the trade union relations - concluded Ferrari - is part of the game but through an approach that values the merit of the issues, especially in external contexts that increasingly affect on the economic and therefore social balances of any sector".