Reform of contracts, Squinzi: “We have no room for maneuver, for us is a closed chapter ‘- Il Sole 24 Ore

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“For us it is a closed chapter.” Giorgio Squinzi speaks at the end of the meeting that was held yesterday in Assolombarda with categories belonging to Confindustria, forty, or with expired contracts expiring in the coming months, by June 2016, including chemical, food, metal workers. A debate that lasted more than two hours to arrive at a glance: closed chapter of a reform of the pattern of bargaining with the CGIL, CISL and UIL. The categories will go ahead with their own platforms and Confindustria will arrive in the coming days a “Ten Commandments,” as he called Squinzi, “of things you can do and not do in any negotiations they may consider bringing forward. The individual categories are free, for those who believe there is autonomy to move forward. ”

The document will contain the principles on how Confindustria imagines bargaining based on the needs of business competitiveness. “We have no room for maneuver in order to continue talks on contracts in the traditional way”, he said yesterday after the meeting. “For months, at least from July, which we take to slaps and waive all of our openings, we take note.” Squinzi also focused on wage demands platforms already presented: “The positions of the union above all are unrealistic in the monetary and then also for the future of our country.”

The president of Confindustria tried until the last dialogue with the three confederations CGIL, CISL and UIL, except to acknowledge the impossibility of going forward, as enshrined in the meeting yesterday. “I wanted this meeting to understand the opinion of our organizations that foresee a need to renew the contract in the next six months. The result is that we realized the impossibility of carrying out any negotiations with the union. ” We are on the table, among other issues, the question of a stronger link between wages to productivity, the money gap between the IPCA (ie the index applied to the previous bargaining round) and the actual inflation trend (there are certain categories between 70 and 80 € waste, for enterprises). There has been a “substantial unity,” said Squinzi, reiterating that “contrary to reports Ms. Camusso not want to reduce wages, do not want to block the negotiations and that any negotiation has its autonomy, do not want a moratorium.”

But there are obstacles that are evidence of the difficulties the union, repeatedly emphasized by heads of Confindustria, to keep pace with the times. For example negotiation Federalimentare (there was a meeting yesterday and there will be another today) is likely to run aground on the brake by the union to apply the rules in the contract approved in the demotion Jobs Act, rules on which instead Federalimentare He does not intend to derogate. During the approval of the Jobs Act, the CGIL had challenged this rule, we must see if this position will prevail to the negotiating table.

The hope of Squinzi is that there is a “hot autumn”, as said responding to a question from journalists. “But the line of the past – he added – we did not. If they are unable to reach an agreement to create a model contract more advanced and in line with the times that requires us to the global economy need to be really worried. ” The document of Confindustria, a dozen pages, summarizing the position of the confederation on various issues of labor relations, including agreements. This will be discussed today in Executive Committee and then be approved in the General Council on October 22. This scenario fits the possibility of intervention by the government, which defines a minimum wage. “Somehow the government could also come, but hope not combine damage,” was the comment of Squinzi.

The reactions of the union have not had to wait: “The model contract is in the past , do not give up to the fact that the parties must play their part, “said the number one of the CISL, Annamaria Furlan. “Squinzi ago bank to the government, not just tell,” said the general secretary of Uil, Carmelo Barbagallo, and even Paolo Pirani, Uiltec leader, speaks of a government-Confindustria agreement on minimum wage for a general wage reduction.

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