This is how the trade unions rumble in Goitini’s BNL
All the reasons for the protests of the trade unions against Bnl of the French group Bnp Paribas. The article by Emanuela Rossi
More fibrillation in the Bnl house.
Fabi, First, Fisac, Uilca and Unisin, who demonstrated in Rome on Thursday in front of the headquarters of the general management, point the finger above all at the outsourcing of 10% of the workforce, which took place without an agreement with the sector acronyms. Under the lens of trade union organizations, however, there are also incentive systems, hiring, workloads and the increase in the cost of products and services despite a reduction in the number of employees. Without forgetting the age-old question of commercial pressures that affects various credit institutions.
THE REPORT OF THE TRADE UNIONS
In a recent note, the credit unions highlight "what has been happening, for almost 2 years now, in one of the most important Italian credit companies". It begins with salaries that are "linked to a schizophrenic incentive and with immeasurable indices according to management itself" and moves on to "a work/life balance that is increasingly a work/life hybrid with very strong repercussions in terms of work stress related".
Social dialogue is also bad, which is "reduced to proclamations without the right to reply made from a stage with selected questions and interlocutors left alone in the immense audience" and "open and closed reorganization procedures without providing any specifics to the unions" are also bad. In BNL, other things also seem not to work, such as the "millions of euros spent on training (taken from co-financed funds) continuing to maintain that personnel need reskilling ", the "fugitive hirings" and the "non-existent generational turnover" not to mention the Digital Bank which is "developed around procedures and processes studied for the Traditional Bank" and which sees a "forced transfer of accounts after a unilateral assessment made on the 'profitability target' and not on the 'customer target'".
In essence, it is the j'accuse of the trade unions, "the reality that colleagues experience every day is exactly condensed in the building that since 2017 has housed the registered office of the French-owned bank: from the outside the mirrors, cleaned by daring workers, they reflect a clear and bright sky; from inside, the films applied to the mirrored glass make the sky gloomy and empty. All that glitters is not gold."
THE EVENT IN ROME AGAINST BNL
Given this situation, the trade unions of the Bnl Group met on Thursday morning in front of the headquarters of the bank's General Management, in Rome, for a sit-in.
“One year after the reorganization procedure that led to the outsourcing of 10% of the workforce – reads the press release presenting the initiative -, which ended without an agreement with the trade unions, the bank imposes a new reorganization impacting 2,000 of the 3,600 general management workers, which is also not shared with the trade union organizations which have been denied the necessary information and required by the National Collective Labor Agreement for a correct assessment of the repercussions”. Over 100 representatives of Fabi and other acronyms took part in the sit-in.
THE PROBLEM OF COMMERCIAL PRESSURES
As we said, the other issue that causes many difficulties for the banks remains in the background, the commercial pressures on which in 2017, for the first time, the ABI and the unions signed an agreement although "the results are slow to arrive" as Lando Maria Sileoni, Fabi's secretary general, said last June during the hearing in the bicameral commission of inquiry into the banking and financial system.
On that occasion, Sileoni presented a dossier to the parliamentarians in which he retraced many cases of commercial pressure and recalled, for example, "the very heavy sanctions – over 20 million in total – by the Antitrust (AGCM) imposed on Unicredit, Intesa, Ubi and BNL ” in March 2020 “for engaging in aggressive commercial practices” in relation to the bundling of policies and loans.
The group coordination of Unisin also returned to the matter later. "For some time now, the bank has taken a strange turn, inconceivable for those who have their hands in contact with customers every day, inconceivable for all commercial roles because they work at the pace of everything and immediately" is the beginning of the note in which the finger is pointed at "the continuous pressure received, the emails on products to be sold, those on contests to be seized on the fly, those on budgets to be closed, the gruesome ones on the best and least good. On the other hand, you never read e-mails on the improvement of computer systems, on the resolution of problems now rooted in the programs in use, nobody who realizes the difficulties of working with the public with continuous PC hitches".
In this regard, the union mentions "the means we can use to assert our rights or rather not to see them trampled" starting with the 2016 Protocol on trade policies, which it establishes precisely "in consideration of the importance and delicacy of the issue", a Joint Commission to investigate and evaluate phenomena that are inconsistent with the system of values and the indications shared by the Protocol, harmful to people's dignity and their professionalism.
Then there is the Regulation of the National Commission on Commercial Policies and Labor Organization, signed in Abi, which is part of the 2017 Agreement and which governs the management of reports of "significant issues referring to relevant cases, of a general nature" which they can be submitted to the National Commission by the company or group Commissions envisaged by the company agreements, by the representatives of the company part or by the company or group bodies themselves.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/sindacati-bnl-elena-goitini/ on Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:18:51 +0000.