The weakening of the role of national bargaining will necessarily lead to a broad discussion on the second level contract. It applies to all sectors, including the banking sector, where the national contract was renewed a few months ago after an exhausting negotiation between the unions and Abi.
La First Cisl, among the main banking unions, deals with the issue of second level contract within a workshop entitled 'The factory of ideas' underway in Fiesole (FI). From the words of the general secretary Julius Romans the need emerges to make company bargaining more effective and free but "within shared schemes and values", explains Romani. The secretary also specifies that today, "the need to coordinate second-level bargaining is stronger than in the past, as the national one, in the future, may not be able to fulfill the role". This initiative - continues Romani - perfectly frames the idea of a new union, its centrality in the workplace, to respond to all needs, incorporating in the political proposal the peculiarities of the entire category of workers - professional areas, executives, managers - of banks, insurance companies, cooperative credit and redundancies".
Pier Luigi Ledda, First Cisl National Secretary, head of the corporate coordination sector then “Bargaining must be relaunched, especially the corporate one, made more effective through the structuring of coordination mechanisms which, among other things, the employers already use. Our goal - he added - is to support First contractors in negotiations that are becoming increasingly complex. The scenarios that emerge following the affirmation of the new contractual model or the hypothesis of the introduction of the minimum wage by law will, in any case, condition collective bargaining”.
