Bnl, all the tensions between unions and the Bnp Paribas group
What happens between trade unions and BNL leaders after journalistic rumors that talk about the sale of company branches. Here are all the details.
Doorways between unions and BNL top management after journalistic rumors that speak of spin-offs, restructuring and sales of company branches. Here are all the details.
There is alarm among BNL employees for fears of a possible dismemberment of the company envisaged in the restructuring plan for the institute controlled by the French group Bnp Paribas.
WHAT TRADE UNIONS FEAR
The trade unions fear that the French group wants to proceed with the disposal of some strategic assets and related employees. Il Messaggero , referring to internal sources of the banking group, reports on an articulated plan for the spin-off of activities – two in particular, Information technology and the back office – with the sale of company branches including employees.
HOW MANY ARE THE INTERESTING WORKERS
Overall, around 800 workers would be involved, with activities that could be the subject of an outsourcing operation.
THE MEETING ASKED IN GOITINI
The trade unions last week asked for an urgent meeting with the new CEO of the banking group, Elena Goitini . In particular, Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin have decided to interrupt trade union relations with Bnl – the note reads – and proclaim the state of agitation of the workers to prepare any pressure tool useful to avoid the dismemberment of the company and employee sacrifice.
THE UNITARY COMMUNICATION OF THE TRADE UNIONS
"The trade unions believe they have been too patient with the company counterpart, regarding the rumors circulated on important transfers of workers in the group"; this is what is read in a unitary statement of the national coordination secretariats of the Bnl Group of Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin published on the First Cisl Gruppo Bnl website .
THE REQUESTS OF THE TRADE UNIONS TO BNL
“Last week” the unions made “a formal request for an urgent meeting with the Managing Director in order to request clarifications on the ambiguities of corporate communications. With a constructive spirit we waited patiently and confidently for the date of this fundamental moment of mutual listening to be communicated to us ”.
DISSIDI IN THE BNL HOUSE
"Yesterday – continues the unitary note of 24 June 2021 – instead a proposal arrived which, instead of a quick meeting with the top manager of our institute and Country Manager, provides for the creation of a" calendar of meetings "which perhaps at the end of July it could have led to the required meeting. Proposal that the workers' representatives, today in strong apprehension about their fate, have decided to reject ”.
THE PROTEST OF THE TRADE UNIONS
Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin in Bnl "consider the company response to be inadequate to the seriousness of the issues under discussion and the proposal is the result of a dramatic underestimation by the company of the expectations of the workers of this centenary company". For this reason, the trade unions "have decided to interrupt trade union relations with the company, forcefully repeat the request for an urgent meeting with the Managing Director and proclaim the state of agitation of the workers to prepare any pressure tool useful for to avoid the dismemberment of the company and the "sacrifice" of its workers ".
The National Secretariats are also alerted on the ventured plans for the sale of strategic activities and personnel of the BNL, as "no one can escape the gravity of what is happening" said Tommaso Vigliotti, National Secretary of UNISIN / Confsal as well as Secretary in charge of the Group BNL, commenting on the rumors circulated in recent days and not denied by the Bank and the vehement reactions of the company unions who have interrupted trade union relations and are clamoring for clear words from the Managing Director, Elena Patrizia Goitini. "The projects mentioned are disturbing" continues Vigliotti, who recalls how "similar transactions for the sale of delicate assets and related personnel outside the perimeter of the banking Group and towards companies that are outside the perimeter of the credit sector are a rare and extraordinary exception in our category and, when they were made, except for some rare and also exceptional cases, they related to situations of failure and default risk, which as far as we know is not the case of the BNL ".
For the National Secretary of UNISIN the question is clear: "if these projects exist, they must be set aside and the entire Business Plan being defined must be reviewed, starting from a close and constant discussion with the trade unions, which at this point is the the only way to protect the bank's integrity ".
The alternative, according to Vigliotti, is "a harsh season of conflict with the risk of definitively and irreversibly compromising the consolidated and successful industrial relations model that has so far characterized the life of the bank, allowing the overcoming of critical moments and the relaunch of company". "It must be clear to the shareholder BNP Paribas and the CEO", concludes Vigliotti, "that the company and national union will reject any attempt to dismember the bank".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/bnl-tutte-le-tensioni-fra-sindacati-e-gruppo-bnp-paribas/ on Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:28:54 +0000.