After 14 technical meetings, it has stopped the negotiations on the renewal of the collective agreement of the food industry. The unions are not satisfied with the answers given by Federalimentare on the platform presented a unit and have launched a state of agitation as early as next January 22. The diary of the work requested the CISL secretary, Luigi Sbarra, who is also the category Fai-Cisl, to explain the reasons for the decision to break off negotiations.
This night has stopped negotiations for the renewal of the national collective agreement of the food industry expired on November 30. There were 14 technical meetings prior to this night. What are the critical issues and the main reasons that prompted the unions to stop the negotiating table?
Federalimentare was perched in a short-sighted on a long series of “no” and preconceptions ideological dismantling piece by piece the foundations on which it held a consistent platform, sustainable and perspective. It ‘been the subject of pay, for welfare, for training, for the labor market. Not a counter, not a crack that could make sense goodwill in counterpart. From first to last, the setting of the delegation was that employers, old and losing, of those who think they can increase their margins by compression of the rights and wages of workers. A vision really short and reprehensible, because it does pay the price of the crisis for the most vulnerable and condemns the companies to be screwed on levels of productivity and competitiveness ever lower. In short, the losers are not only employees of the company: they are also businesses and the national productive system as a whole.
What are the demands of Fai-Cisl at the table negotiations have not found any kind of willingness on the part of Federalimentare?
We asked for a pay increase legitimate and sustainable, considering the macroeconomic data and the encouraging performance specifications of the food industry . A fund this year – only for one thing – increased its exports by more than 7 percent. We were told no, no appeal. We have claimed equal rights and treatment for contract workers engaged in the production chain: a moral duty, first and foremost. We were told no, no appeal. We have made proposals that aim to enhance the spaces of the local agreements, responding to a need to increase participation, productivity and competitiveness. The answer, once again, was “niet”. So for the joint training, which has been denied: a mutual fund for early retirement. It is not enough: the party purported to attack and clear contractual terms already conquered, such as seniority and performance rewards. A totally disrespectful, denoting a great vice ideological.
We read in the press release that unit Federalimentare wants “an agreement based solely on overall wage penalty from the block seniority and the elimination of production bonuses frozen “. Federalimentare has excellent results, especially after Expo 2015, according to you why it is not available to accept the request made?
I repeat: for vice eminently ideological. Did they think we were intimidated and that we sold. This did not happen. The food industry has always boasted of a specific ability to withstand the blows of the recession. The component exports has always guaranteed, and continues to guarantee, performance far above manufacturing classic. If you add that all of the data available to talk about a re-start domestic consumption food, the wall built by Federalimentare and the litany of the invariance of the cost that we were fed becomes even more incomprehensible.
After breaking the table, she said, “our proposal was and is a responsible, sustainable, which also meets the needs of businesses, combining competitiveness, productivity and growth. A platform which is not limited to a right and legitimate wage claim, but raises industrial relations and participation as a key element of shared development. ” Can substantiate how the platform presented evidence to combine productivity, leitmotiv of the government Renzi, and the legitimate wage claim?
Make saw and sees the renewal of the national contract not only an opportunity to claim the right. The points that define our platform aim to define a new and shared development strategy through more participatory relationships. Quality, innovation, competitiveness goals are closely linked to the level of involvement of workers in the processes of business. When you tie wages to productivity elements, when it strengthens the bilateral and the supplementary welfare, it benefits the entire business system. This is the meaning of our proposals, which aim to transform the social partners in the real “authority wage”. Not only representatives of the legitimate interests of its members, but actors of development policy, capable of generating wealth and development throughout the company.
After the breakdown of negotiations was declared a state of agitation of the sector from the shareholders’ meetings in the workplace, the immediate block of overtime and all the flexibility, a package of 4 hours of strike articulated at the company level to be made by 22 January and 8 hours national strike on January 29th. What level of participation do you expect the initiatives planned? And what reaction you hoped for by Federalimentare?
I expect a level of commitment commensurate with the great participation that has seen driving in the past weeks hundreds of meetings and active unit. Thousands of women and men who for months have urged responsibly acceleration of negotiations to reach agreement on the renewal tight deadlines. And now, frankly, they feel cheated by a representative employer who has never taken a step in their direction. Foreclosures and short-sighted ideological Federalimentare have made the mobilization inevitable. Our efforts to combat are the necessary response not only to claim the sacred right and the right to bargain, but also to engage the employers’ side to a serious reflection. The hope is that the counterparties to review their position closing ruling and to engage in dialogue on a new basis, responsible, working to restart a comparison need to get to the renewal and give concrete answers to the expectations of workers.
Cgil, Cisl and Uil are going to launch the document on the reform of contracts, on which will open ‘then negotiations with Confindustria. He believes that this event may have influenced the negotiations on your contract? in other words, and ‘possible that Federalimentare want to await the outcome of negotiations between confederations, before in turn?
This should be asked Federalimentare. For our part we consider very serious even the hypothesis. We have always said that the two issues, that of the negotiating table on the contracts and the national reform model, must march on rails distinct and parallel. If Federalimentare think you can make the negotiations for the renewal of the national contract on the food industry to the discussion on the reform of the bargaining model commits a serious mistake and is likely to create in the field of social tensions. The opposite of what it takes to workers and businesses.
Alessia Pontoriero
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