Another day of negotiation between the unions and Federmeccanica: today the issues concerning contracts, parental leave, law 104 and salary. It is precisely on the salary that the main issue remains, so much so that the metalworkers' union of the CISL contested Federmeccanica in a statement: "On the issue of procurement, the industrial association has not given clear and precise answers to the issues we have raised with respect to the guarantees for the workers involved, on employment and contractual continuity (wages, professionalism, seniority, etc.). On the other hand, we have positively assessed the willingness to split use into groups of two hours on parental leave, we believe instead the limits in the methods of use on the permits linked to law 104 are negative that Federmeccanica wants to introduce through a monthly schedule, creating further problems precisely in situations of need and care".
“On the salary we are stuck on December 22nd – said the secretary Marco Bentivogli -: the negotiation has not been done and is not being done. No step forward, time has just passed in vain and this is a responsibility entirely borne by Federmeccanica. Their salary proposal contains a number of serious contradictions and inconsistencies. There is talk of a guaranteed salary, but the only guarantee is that the increases go to only 5% of metalworkers”.
In particular, continues the note, are those workers who in recent years they did not receive any salary element at the corporate and individual level. “The guarantee salary can be an opportunity, but by changing the current approach which: 1) definitively releases 95% of companies from the regulation envisaged by the National Collective Labor Agreement from the point of view of wages and subsequently also from the rest, thus determining only the conditions to strongly weaken the social cohesion element of the national contract, today distorting the wage question and tomorrow destroying the normative parts; 2) unloads wage tensions in all companies where the National Contract will not apply, without any guarantee that these are configured in a greater connection to company productivity challenges; 3) it would increase the burdens for the companies most in difficulty in which the share of direct wages would paradoxically grow more than for all the other companies".
“Furthermore – continues the note by Fim-Cisl -, even for the 5% of workers who would receive the contract increase, inflation coverage would take place 15 months late and this too is an unacceptable price for us. For 5% of metalworkers, their willingness would be to shift the resources envisaged by the equalization element of €485 on the contractual minimums over 13 months for an amount of €37,31. The other central aspect for us remains the development and dissemination of the second-level contract, the only way to increase the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of businesses by then distributing its benefits to workers”.
