“The CGIL, CISL and UIL document has a high-sounding title but gods disappointing and cat-of-the-mouth content“: declares Roberto Di Maulo, FISMIC National Secretary General, autonomous metalworkers and industries union. According to a note from the car union, the unitary proposal on negotiation, representation and participation repeats in a monotonous way what in the last fifty years has brought the Italian contractual system to the state of blockage in which it finds itself today.
In fact, the note continues, the centrality in the contractual system of the national contract, even weighing it down, also assigning it the task of distributing nationally remunerated productivity quotas, not taking into account that the strong differentiation induced by the ongoing economic crisis requires instead faster responses that can only be given at a company level.
On representation according to Di Maulo the disappointing and unenforceable inter-confederation agreement of January 2014 is re-proposed 'equal to equal' which was supposed to represent a turning point in the measurement of representation and which, two years later, is instead applied to only 16% of workplaces in manufacturing industry and 0% in the rest of private employees. There is some step forward, albeit timid, on participation, but given that it concerns the application of Article 46 of the Constitution, this timid step forward takes place 70 years after the promulgation of the Constitutional Charter.
No progress however, according to FISMIC, on two fundamental chapters such as supplementary welfare and professional training, for which their bankruptcy models of bilaterality are slavishly reproposed, more useful to the confederate coffers than to the needs of the workers.
"It is a disappointing and old document since its inception. Instead, FISMIC considers the documents presented by FEDERMECCANICA during the discussions for the renewal of the contract, an excellent starting point for changing an old contractual system with an innovative system, especially for the part concerning supplementary welfare and professional training of workers. On these bases - concludes Di Maulo - it is possible to imagine a rapid conclusion of the discussion of the metalworkers' contract starting from the next sessions of 21 and 28 January 2016".
