How is the renewal of the metalworkers’ contract going?
The intervention of Roberto Benaglia, general secretary of Fim Cisl , on the resumption of the negotiations for the renewal of the national collective agreement for the work of metalworkers
Negotiations for the renewal of the national collective labor agreement for metalworkers resumed yesterday in Rome, after 10 months, with two days dedicated to health and safety, industrial relations and participation. A contract that is renewed at a time of great uncertainty and extraordinary nature.
The resumption of negotiations with a busy schedule is a good sign to renew the contract, which must be followed by concrete openings.
Federmeccanica's declaration of wanting to renew the contract is useful, but it must lead to openings on all points of the trade union platform.
The crisis has shown us how important trade union relations are in managing the health crisis in companies.
Failure to renew would create a void and add further uncertainty that we cannot afford. The contract today is more important than ever because it is called to restart the supply chains and work within the metalworking sector to overcome the difficult negative situation and manage the great transformation that work is experiencing and on which it is necessary to give contractual solutions.
On July 30th we set an intense calendar that we are called to maintain – we are already 10 months late – we must have the ability to summarize the platform presented in a post-covid period, calibrating it to the new scenario.
In this sense, the normative part of the contract joins the salary part: raising the protections for those who work and raising wages to better recognize the value of work, are the cornerstones of the unitary platform to be implemented in the renewal.
Then there is the issue of safety, on which it is no coincidence that we wanted to reopen the negotiation today, a topic that, as we have seen with the pandemic, was crucial for keeping companies and work on their feet, taking advantage of the experiences practiced with comparison and company bargaining.
The contract in this sense must be contextualized but credible proposals are needed, tactics and rituals are not needed, even unprecedented and rapid responses are needed.
The contract is an extraordinary tool to facilitate the recovery and must be done now because not seizing this moment in which the industry is restarting would be a problem for the country.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/come-va-il-rinnovo-del-contratto-dei-metalmeccanici/ on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:00:18 +0000.