The protagonists of the duel for the renewal of the bank contract they return to the field today at Palazzo Altieri after breakdown of negotiations and the January 30 strike. Given the tone of the last few weeks, one could almost say that Abi e sindacati some bankers return to the ring ready to battle again. But time is running out and the two sides will probably put the boxing gloves aside and look for a way of dialogue. It must be said that the two sides are still far, far away on the main topics of discussion of this puzzle of renewal of the bank contract. These are mainly five points: the recovery of inflation, seniority increases, the revaluation of the severance indemnity, second-level bargaining and classifications.
Last December 31th Abi has decided to cancel the contract but he gave the unions three months to be able to set up one renewal negotiation. If an agreement is not found on the new contract, it will go towards disapplication starting from April XNUMXst. On both sides the concept is that a contract is not needed at any cost. The unions intimate Abi with new mobilizations and the threat of turning to the Government, Abi needs to radically change the cards on the table because the credit association believes that the current type of national contract is no longer economically sustainable.
They expect from today's meeting important news at least in a relaxing way. An agreement is not expected on all fronts but at least some stakes are set. The unions will have to give way on some points, the same thing goes for Abi. For the unions the national banking agreement represents an architrave and for this very reason it seems unlikely that an agreement cannot be reached by April XNUMXst.
On Wednesday, Fabi Lando's general secretary Maria Sileoni present at the Fabi Unicredit congress was very clear: “We must make the contract; on the contrary, two alternatives are possible, either call the Government, which is an unknown factor, or disapply it. In this second case, some items would be frozen and, above all, the way would be opened for the banks to have a free hand". I'm from the parts of the main banking union there are two points on which we insist the most: a full recovery of inflation and maintenance of seniority increases. The reason is obvious: without a full recovery of inflation and with the elimination or drastic reduction of seniority increases, the concern of bankers is that of a marked reduction in purchasing power.
From Abi la complete restructuring of the banking contract it is seen as necessary both due to the fall in profitability that has been taking place in recent times and due to the changes in customer behavior which affect the traditional way of "doing banking", just think of the revolution brought about by home banking. For Abi it is important to find a synthesis between the positions in the field and this is why he has decided to resume negotiations with the unions hoping to identify with the unions those points from which to rewrite the new contract.
