500 delegates of the FCA – CNH and Ferrari Group from all over Italy met in Rome for the presentation of the CCSL renewal platform (Specific Collective Labor Agreement) expiring on December 31st.
The four-year contract affects over 90 employees in Italy of the Italian-American automotive group. The general secretaries of Fim, Uilm, Fismic, Ugl, AQCF and the national secretaries were present. Fiom-Cgil, which had not signed the previous agreements with Lingotto, will present its own autonomous contractual proposal.
Under the salary profile, the unions are asking, in addition to the reconfirmation of the current bonus system, an overall increase of 10% of the basic pay which when fully operational on the 3rd group 1A band is equal to an annual value of 2.279 euros, which comparing it monthly (13 months) is equal at 175,30 euros.
As far as the working hours improvements were requested both in terms of flexible hours and shifts, an increase in allowances for holidays and overtime and recoveries. Also requested is the introduction and extension of the institution of the hour bank, smart working, and solidarity holidays, while the percentage threshold of part-time has been raised.
On the front of the welfare requested the increase in the contribution paid by the company for the Fasif health fund and the Cometa pension fund, the contractualisation of the various forms of company welfare already present from study grants, nursery schools, etc.
Sui trade union rights, the platform establishes the assignment to a joint commission of analysis and study on new forms of participation of workers' representatives in corporate bodies. Worth noting is the establishment of a special company commission for the management of training with the aim of extending the right to professional training to all employees through paths of growth in skills. The request for recognition of the Global Union Industriall FCA-CNHI-Ferrari Network is also important, at a time when the Group now operates on a global level.
The willingness to set up IT boxes to facilitate access to employee information is also required (e.g. electronic pay slip, health fund, etc.)
Finally with regard to the classification, the unions highlighted the need to check the experimental band system adopted for new hires.
Su Health & Safety, established a six-monthly review system of the risk assessment document, which can be consulted online. Specific training is also planned for the RLS present within the production sites and the establishment of a thematic "security day" in the workplaces.
The platform will be submitted for approval to the RSA vote of all the FCA CNHI and Ferrari plants on 8 and 9 November.
For the Secretary General of Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli "the one presented is an ambitious and robust platform, which aims not only to increase wages and welfare but also innovation and training as a strategic element for workers and the company".
“Those who love the people they represent – continues the leader of the metalworkers of the CISL – hope that the companies do well, make profits and redistribute them with the workers. In this sense, it is necessary to change the pace of industrial relations aiming at the strategic participation of workers, which will be increasingly decisive in the success of companies. The goal today must be to implement the industrial plan presented by Sergio Marchionne last June. It is important to have answers on the new models and an acceleration on technological innovation, towards the hybrid and the electric one”. For this reason, greater and more incisive dialogue will be needed with the new CEO Michael Manley as well as with Pietro Gorlier, head of activities in Europe, to improve the previous one starting from our platform".
