“It is a pity that the trade unions did not share and grasp the importance and scope of the novelties in the proposals that were made during negotiations today.” This is how Port Network Authority President Luciano Guerrieri comments on the failure to come to an agreement during the meeting between the employers’ and trade union organizations that the Port Authority had summoned today at its headquarters in Palazzo Rosciano.
The port authority’s president stressed that today’s meeting had produced a blueprint for a programming policy that, through clear guidelines, would initiate the previously announced redefinition of the overall work organization model in the North Tyrrhenian Network ports, which includes a preliminary analysis of the temporary manpower phenomenon.
Several issues were addressed in what has been dubbed the ‘truce settlement.’ At the top of the agenda was the Article 17 issue; the one concerning the tariffs applied in the port and the one concerning temporary employment, “carefully examined by both sides with solutions that would take a very short time to produce tangible results.”
Mr. Guerrieri therefore says he is”concerned about the repercussions that the breakdown in negotiations will have on the stability of the port. However, the Port Network Authority is still prepared to resume talks as soon as possible”.
Translation by Giles Foster