An important meeting was held today at Confindustria in Rome on the renewal of the national contract for metalworkers. The topics under discussion were continuous training, the right to study and apprenticeship.
Fim-Cisl secretary Marco Bentivogli commented on the progress made: “The individual right to training has a good chance of becoming a reality soon for metalworkers. This is a theme on which the FIM in particular has been pushing for some time, aware of the fact that the entire industry sector and the new intelligent factories of Industry 4.0 have (and will always have) also always need the intelligence of people, their skills and professionalism and their cognitive commitment. Continuous training is a strategic investment to update or develop skills, in close connection with the technological and organizational innovation of work and production.
However, it is the workers – continues Bentivogli – who will benefit most from this real cultural revolution: in the current productive context, company reorganizations and restructurings are frequent, and it can happen that the career is not always continuous. With training as a subjective right, the worker becomes stronger and will have more effective tools than he does today to deal with any changes. Continuous training understood in this new way is one of the elements that will make this renewal a modern and innovative contract, with new or renewed tools to grasp and accompany the challenge of change in work and factories".
“The negotiation continues – concludes the Fim Cisl secretary – At the moment the topics on which we are well advanced are: health and social security welfare, training, the right to study, holidays and parental leave, law 104. In the next few days we will we will take care of classification, working hours, implementation of the Consolidated Law, industrial relations and participation, business trips, contracts, transfers and availability, second level distribution and salary".
The negotiation continues in the technical commission the day after tomorrow 10 November in the afternoon and then on 11, and possibly on 14, 15 and 16 November, the date on which – in the afternoon – the negotiations will resume with the national secretariats.
