The three-day meetings (8-10 Novembre 2024) between confederal unions and employer associations for the renewal of the Italian national contract for Logistics, Freight Transport, and Shipping, concluded without agreement. In a joint statement, Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, and Uiltrasporti explained, “These three days did not lead to the acceleration that unions had hoped for; the counterparts failed to understand that this renewal must modernize the national collective labor agreement for a sector experiencing profound transformations driven by technological innovation and the verticalization of the entire logistics chain, a sector that today contributes 10% to the country's GDP and employs around one million workers.”
The unions specifically reject the proposals on working hours, social clauses for traveling personnel, health and safety, and reducing job insecurity in road transport. They stated that “the employer demands demonstrate a clear intent to weaken both company-level and regional bargaining, limiting the role of workplace representatives and unions in the field.”
Furthermore, “the distance that remains between our demands and the counterparts' positions, which also include a worsening of sick leave conditions, prevented us from even addressing the issue of our 18% request for a comprehensive economic increase.”
This was the twenty-first meeting in the effort to renew the national contract since the unions presented their claims platform on November 30, 2023. At this point, the union statement concluded, “in the coming days, based on the mandate received from the meeting of union leaders and delegates on October 28, strike actions will be announced to support the claims and achieve a contract renewal that recognizes the professionalism and dignity of all sector workers.”
