The metalworkers have a new contract. After a very long negotiation, which lasted over a year, the unions have achieved the important result for a category that has 1,6 million workers: the new contract is valid from last January until June 2024, and foresees an average increase of 112 euros in payroll for a fifth level and 100 for the third. The tranches will be disbursed as follows: 25 euros in 2021, 25 euros in June 2022, 27 euros in June 2023, 35 euros in June 2024. And that's not all: the 112 euro increase is joined by the 12 euro HICP on the minimums from June 2020, due to the effect of the ultraactivity due to the structure of the previous CCNL, and 200 euros per year of flexible benefits are also confirmed, with the increase for Cometa (the supplementary pension fund) to 2,2% from 2022 for under 35.
“It was a very difficult contract, perhaps one of the most difficult in recent decades – he commented the general secretary of the Fim Cisl Roberto Benaglia -, amidst the pandemic, an economic and social crisis to which the political one is added today. Above all, this contract will go down in history for the important reform of the professional framework stopped in 1973. A reform of the framework that puts order and updates the classification system, modernizing and updating the systems for assessing the professionalism of the workers. Furthermore, an important work was done to strengthen the entire first part of the contract on industrial relations; information rights, comparison and participation; of training; in particular of subjective law, introduced the social clause on public procurement; and then very significant and important, the text on gender-based violence, and smart working ".
“A very important contract – adds Benaglia – because aims to restart the engineering industry rewarding the value of work. We are satisfied with the significant salary increase which, together with the classification reform that has been awaited for 48 years, is the heart of this contract. Recognizing and remunerating the value of work is the future of union relations. With this renewal, bargaining returns to dealing with the value of work and professionalism, looking at the changes that are affecting work and the technological transition and the competence of metalworkers. Among the many regulatory issues defined in an innovative key in this contract, a response of better protection for the future of young people through higher coverage for supplementary pensions stands out".
