“The FCA and CNHI membership figures for the Welfare Plan are certainly positive, in less than a month more than 35% of the workers of the two groups joined the plan that we built with our union agreements. An average that is normally less than 20% of adhesions in the first year” This is the comment of the national secretary of the Fim Cisl, Ferdinando Uliano, on the first corporate welfare plan of the country concerning the two giants of the car.
“In the automotive sector – explains the trade unionist – the highest levels of membership have been reached, with FCA reaching an average membership of around 40% of workers, to which, if we add supplier companies such as Magneti Marelli, Teksid etc. we reach almost 45%. Of which 57% workers and 43% office workers and professionals. In the main FCA plants we have the following percentages of adhesion: Cassino 58%; Melfi 46%; Pomigliano 40%; Sevel 40% and Turin production hub 48%. CNHI membership is also very positive, with peaks in the Turin area ranging from 20% to 40%”.
“With the welfare plan – continues Uliano – we have given an extra opportunity to the workers of FCA and CNHI and around 30.000 workers have decided to use it by increasing the economic advantage of the productivity incentive, up to an amount of around 700 euros, through the tax relief, the decontribution, the additional company share of 5% and the economies of scale that are generated”.
“With the union bargaining in FCA and CNHI we have managed in recent years to fill factories with work which up until just 3 years ago were characterized by a very heavy use of redundancy payments, our goal remains full employment in 2018, and on the wage front the The economic response made it possible to distribute wages in addition to inflation, a fact that had not been seen in Fiat for 19 years, distributing an average of €97,6 for FCA and €2.779 for CNHI to 2.480% of employees over the two years. With the welfare agreement we have given the possibility of further increasing wage and social protection to workers and their families”, concludes Uliano.
