The companies have reached an agreement on productivity and tonight at 20 pm, in the headquarters of Confindustria, they will meet the trade unions. After about a month of negotiation, yesterday evening Confindustria, Abi, Ania, Alleanza Cooperative and Rete Imprese Italia they found agreement on a common document.
“We have found a satisfactory formulation – said the president of Confindustria, Giorgio Squinzi -. Starting tomorrow we will meet the leaders of the trade union confederations to present the document and possibly reach an agreement with them as well".
But if the game is played on "lowering wage conditions and workers' rights", the confrontation between the social partners on productivity does not have much chance of ending with an agreement. This the stop already arrived from the CGIL.
“I think, maybe I'm wrong, that as far as the agreement on productivity is concerned, we're going nowhere – said the secretary Susanna Camusso -. Also because there appears to be a willingness to unload all the effects of the operation on contractual protection and working hours and there is a war between companies that is taking place over the lowering of wage conditions and workers' rights. There is a need to defend the bargaining structure even from unrepentant ministers who talk too much”.
Yesterday the Minister of Labour, Elsa Fornero, had indicated the lines that for the Executive will have to characterize the agreement, and then be sanctioned by a decree, starting from the "weakening of contractual automatisms", including the "waiver" of indexing automatic wage adjustment when prices rise.
The Minister of Development, Corrado Passera, is on the same line: "Wage automatisms that do not take into account differences in the sector and company are not useful for making the country more competitive". Passera then pointed out that the Government, after having put resources on the plate for 1,6 billion, deems it "necessary to give a fiscal reward" to productivity increases that are "effective".
