“The national contract represents an important tool and a great opportunity for change for the country. Like Fim, we defended it by also providing for exceptions. The decree that the government is working on is fine if the text demonstrates the renunciation of making the legal minimum wages and if it refers to the 2014 Consolidated Text on derogations, without touching the minimums, and on representation". This was stated by the general secretary of the Fim Cisl, Marco Bentivogli, speaking via skype at the conference organized in Sondrio by Think-in entitled "How work changes and why", which was attended by the general manager of Federmeccanica Stefano Franchi and the senator Pd Mauro del Barba.
According to the Fim leader, "this is an anti-industrial country, because the entire state system, from the bureaucracy to the tax authorities, tends to discourage business and this is a problem: the various governments have encouraged positions sheltering the income of a certain Italian capitalism, as demonstrated by the recent cases of capital flight from the company from the 'Falciani list' yesterday and today the 'Panama Papers' case in whose lists it seems to me difficult to find workers”.
Bentivogli added that “unfortunately our political class, among the European ones, has little awareness of the industrial question, and this is paradoxical, because Italy is condemned to an industrial vocation. We are a small country without raw materials which, in order to pay for imports of goods we do not have, is condemned to export: without industry the system does not work. We need a strategic vision and perspective”.
On the recent controversy triggered by the Prime Minister's generalizations about FCA, the Fim leader underlines how the workers are clear who worked in the union so that what is now FCA and CNHI could be achieved. “For this reason today the Fim Cisl is largely the leading trade union organization in the Group. Of course – Bentivogli concluded – greater discernment would be needed in order not to equate those who fled the negotiation to take refuge on talk shows and those who instead received assaults in offices and threats to delegates. A statesman must instead enhance the positive and vital energies of the country, and the Premier must recover on this ".
