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Rome, 13 February 2008

Nicolosi (CGIL): concerned about the manner and content of proposals to reform the system contract

Declaration of Nicola Nicolosi, National Coordinator of the CGIL trade union left Labor Company "

The draft document prepared by the secretariats of CGIL CISL UIL on the structure of bargaining for concern in the method and substance.

In the method, because even if properly represent the national directors of Cgil as the venue for discussion and decision, in fact the document has already agreed with CISL and UIL, limits the opportunity to discuss the contents in the organization and with workers.

The document is and general ambivalence about the wages would remain linked to demands for protection by inflation, while it was decided that the national collective work, in addition to improving the living and working conditions, was to achieve a real increase in wages. This position is not harmony with the line enshrined together in the Congress of Rimini.

It thus contradicts the commitment that placed at the center of political contractual salary increases and our commitment to ensure by contract the recovery of heavy loss of wages last 15 years.

Grave is the role you want to assign to bilateral agencies, which take contractual duties even on the second level. The bilateralism could become a Trojan horse to water down function and role of the union.

Work Company is preparing to make a substantive contribution to support the reasons for bargaining and now calls the strict respect of procedures to establish democracy and mandate of any platform.

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Published Saturday 16 February 2008

2 Comments to "reform of the contractual"

Rete28Aprile says:

WE ARE NOT AGREE WITH THE PROPOSAL OF CGIL, CISL, UIL
TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT OF NATIONAL CONTRACT
ASK THE WORKERS CAN CHOOSE
AMONG ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS
In recent years, salaries in Italy have suffered a catastrophe, have plummeted among the last Western countries and have become second-last in Europe. Now everyone is saying that we need to increase salaries, but in practical recipes that are not leading at all proposals to improve pay.
CGIL, CISL and UIL have worked out a draft document which proposes a reform of the contract which aggravates all the flaws of that agreement, which is the cause of the fall in wages. This is because:
1. The national contract has so far given few results so tied to inflation program. CGIL, CISL, UIL does not propose, as it would be right to ask for more money in the contract, but rather say that wages have to increase only on the basis of "realistic expectation inflation". E 'this is another way to call the programmed inflation, that is to tie the increase of wages to roofs to prevent inflation and that they can truly recover their purchasing power. It is also proposed the extension from two to three years of the contract term, which will inevitably lead to a further weakening of the salary contracted at national level.
2. It is proposed contracting company, territorial, regional, tying even more wages to productivity, efficiency upon companies. In addition, the second level of negotiations will act on legislation and on schedule, including increasing the flexibility defined in national contracts. In this way no way gives more room for bargaining in the company, but it binds even more results in wage workers, suffering as the offensive of Confindustria, which claims to give more money only to those who work more.
The decision to downsize the national contract to create more space for the exchange wage-productivity in business and in the territory, is profoundly wrong. So do not increase wages while there is still risk of worsening working conditions.
If you really want to increase wages must choose a completely different way, namely:
- To allow the contract could increase the national wage inflation. That is asking a lot more than what was requested in recent years.
- Establish a minimum wage for all, with automatic re-evaluation forms.
- Unlocking the wages of corporate bonds of toil, productivity, presence, which have an incentive to worsen working conditions.
The reform of the contract covers the action of the union and the fundamental rights and the basic conditions of workers. For this reason we ask that the proposed CGIL, CISL and UIL, well before you discuss it with their counterparts, is subject to a transparent consultation between all workers and employees, where you can also choose the alternative proposal to strengthen the national contract. We ask CGIL, CISL and UIL to bring workers from both proposals, that of devolution of contract and more money and national rights in the contract. Are really employees to decide on their contracts and their rights.
17 February 2008 at 12:04 PM
Paola Agnello Modica says:

Track played at the meeting of Secretaries General of the 13.2.08
Abstract
From time request the opening of formal debate on the revision / maintenance of the model contract, concerned about a risk that "the artichoke is browsing through individual renewals (thereby dropping the unity of the model while preparing) and the ' Moreover, any comparison must have a unified position shared.
Statements Angeletti of the presentation Saturday of the document have already been disproved by Epifani and in any case the trade union platform must first be discussed and validated not only in the Steering Committee, but a real path through consultation among all workers and employees. This is essential and are therefore not acceptable force.
I fully unified platform that will exist only insofar as it will be completed by the party on democracy and representation. Probably on this second issue we are still in a position to provide a basis for legislation (as we would like) but it is significant sanction at least some elements, including the democratic path validation platforms and agreements. The experience of the referendum among all workers and pensioners on the 23.7.07 experience is not removable.
Before entering the substance of the draft document, I want to explain why pursuing the search for a unified position with CISL and UIL, from the sharing of audit, which summarized in three points:
1) The Italian manufacturing sector has increasingly parcellizzato (procurement, outsourcing, etc.). And it now covers all categories (from staff to Fiat, from trade to chemistry). This reinforces the need to maintain and strengthen the role of national collective work (CCNL) from either side to widen the practice of contracting the 2nd level, increasing the quality (not just salary, but work organization, etc.). and implement a real bargain site, sector, etc.. We must make a secular analysis of bargaining for 2nd level so far done: Extended, quality, difficulty, ...
2) Sharing between us, with CISL and UIL, with workers of a plant bargaining is important to achieve the objective
3) The specificity of Italian unionism and double federal level bargaining is increasingly put at risk by European dynamics and assumptions that are circulating in the preparation of the election campaign.
Two examples: The proposed minimum wage law (NB: in the evening was launched by Veltroni, but even more insidious because it refers to atypical: 1.000 €-assumes the full-time and since the atypical work should cost more than typical minimum wage would mean an even lower? We have always thought to connect the pay of employees in industry CCNL). This hypothesis is likely to be the first element that calls into question the CCNL!
The second example is the theme of "corporate social responsibility" (we keep hearing about in conferences but whose contours are undefined, also connected to the plant because of reports of other countries) married to the concept of participation through "information and consultation on corporate assets and debts and financial resources of the 'along with the bilateralism (if diverted from the concept defined by bargaining tool and not a substitute for this): this may jeopardize the bargaining level of 2 ^! !
Substance
Let me some key points, against which must be made to make changes and clarifications.
Given that the confirmation of two levels of bargaining is of enormous importance, it is clear that the CCNL must pursue the increase and not only defend the purchasing power of wages. Not escapes providing opportunities for increased costs of collective bargaining through the legislation, but this is not enough.
The possibility of postponement in CCNL materials regulations to 2nd level is of more of a concern, both because it should be explained that can not mean derogabilità is why the theme of rights (from the field labor market) is still in good CCNL .
On bilateralism: being afraid that if they expected more, it made clear its role as a bargaining tool (see above) and should be released from the concept of "welfare contract" on which clarification is necessary in CGIL, from the integrative health. On bilateralism should be a real depth to the analysis of what exists and its practice.
Positive expected to better bind the respect of the timing of renewals, although details are needed on how to actually be able to require the bond, as the effort should be made to explain what mechanisms might be some recovery of the difference between inflation "realistically predicted" (not more "programmed") and real inflation.
Further specifications will be made (Interprofessional Funds, gender difference, cost of rents, etc.). But will be part of the debate.
NB The three companions of Segretria that are part of the working unit had forwarded the draft to the properties.
18 February 2008 at 11:48 a.m. am