The president of the Guerrieri port authority reopens a discussion table trying to find a difficult mediation between workers and shipowners

With a demonstration in which about 300 people took part that ended under the headquarters of the Port System Authority, the protest lasted ten days in Livorno, the last two in the form of a total strike.

A note signed by Giuseppe Gucciardo (Filt-Cgil), Dino Keszei (Fit-Cisl) and Gianluca Vianello (Uiltrasporti) says “participation in the strike of port workers scheduled for the whole day today is currently around 95%. An excellent result, which confirms the compactness of the workers’ front and their need to obtain answers in terms of safety, health and wages ”

. However, it is not over here because “the state of agitation of the workers of the Livorno port system (Livorno, Piombino and Elba) will continue until next October 4th: up to this date the overtime has been blocked.

The decision was taken at the end of the meeting held today with the president of the Port System Authority Luciano Guerrieri. It was certainly a positive encounter

The confederal unions thanking the port authority for their availability and because “from the next few days it will continue its work of mediation with the representatives of the business world to try to find sustainable solutions, especially in terms of reorganization of port work, reduction of precarious work and containment of overtime.

We appreciate – they say – the commitment of President Guerrieri to try to recompose the thread of dialogue with the business world and to reach a mediation of interests in the field. The workers – after 10 days of strike – are expecting concrete answers.

Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti will continue as always to keep the attention high, ready, if needed, to raise the level of protest again “.

LIVORNO is a Large-sized Port. The types of vessels regularly calling at LIVORNO are Sailing Vessel (13%), Container Ship (13%), General Cargo (11%), Oil/Chemical Tanker (10%), Vehicles Carrier (9%). The last vessel called at this port was EUROCARGO LIVORNO, 17m and 38s ago. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 337 meters. The maximum draught is 12.1 meters. The maximum Deadweight is 163136t.

LIVORNO is located at West Mediterranean, Ligurean Sea in Italy at coordinates N 43° 33′ 46.12″ – E 010° 18′ 22.18″. The official UN/Locode of this port is ITLIV.

The local time at LIVORNO is 2022-09-23 14:54:00 and the time zone is UTC +2. The wind in the port area blows from North West direction at force 2 Beaufort. 33 ships have arrived in this Port within the last 24 hours. Currently there are 70 vessels in this Port and another 33 vessels are scheduled to make a port call at LIVORNO.