Two weeks to reach the goal: the renewal of the contract of the banking but the road is still uphill, full of hairpin bends before reaching the summit which would represent the agreement between Abi and the workers' unions on every point. But at each hairpin bend it seems that the two protagonists rather than relaunching the pace prefer to put their foot on the ground exposing the opponent to the bad weather of the bank cnl.
The cycling metaphor only partially gives an idea of how intricate the negotiation is between the ABI committee, chaired by Alessandro Profumo, and the bank union delegations. The two parties must get back in the saddle as soon as possible also because the non-renewal would harm both the credit institutions (in terms of costs in the short term) and the workers (especially new hires). The deadline is set for March 31st, the disapplication of the old one will start from the following day banking contract which, we remind you, was already canceled on December 31st.
But at what stage is the negotiation on new banking contract?
To say that it is at a dead end is not correct but it is good to make it clear that Abi and the unions are still far from reaching an agreement for the renewal of the contract.
Are there openings to find an agreement on the new bank contract?
The answer is yes, because in the meeting of February 20, Abi decided to eliminate the preliminary ruling on severance pay and on snapshots of senioritytwo key elements of the story. It will be on these two points that the parties will have to find a synthesis. And it is clear that the unions will have to take a few steps back both on ABI's requests for a reduction in the calculation basis for the severance pay and on the issue of seniority increases.
But the discussion about new collective labor agreement sector banking it is not limited to just these two topics. In fact, we must not set aside at least three other very delicate issues: theadjustment to inflation for which Abi proposed a three-year increase of 30 euros gross when fully operational, finding clear opposition from the trade unions, the reduction of ranks that in Abi's proposal they will have to go to 6 from the current 13 and greater flexibility on the second level contract.
Next week the negotiation will enter into strong acceleration. A real tour de force is expected with meetings between the ABI and the banking unions scheduled for 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31 March. We need to start setting some stakes on which to build the new national banking contract. If an agreement is not found, the banking institutes, as Profumo himself said, would have a substantial jump in costs and will have to organize themselves to draw up their own company contract to be submitted to their employees. A scenario that, according to Fabi Lando's secretary Maria Sileoni, "would make the sector a jungle".
