What do Cgil, Cisl and Uil think of Draghi? And what will they tell him?
What are the issues that the unions will submit to Draghi? And what relations will there be between the CGIL, CISL and UIL with the next Prime Minister? An in-depth analysis by Nunzia Penelope, deputy director of the online newspaper Il diario del lavoro
Fifteen minutes each, 45 in total, is not much to say all there is to say. But Cgil Cisl and Uil, in this long-awaited first meeting with Mario Draghi, know very well that they cannot put all the open problems on the plate.
After all, everyone knows the priorities: some contingent, others of a longer term. In the first group there is the blocking of layoffs: what will Draghi do, will he extend it beyond March 31, or will he put an end to it? The unions, of course, will ask for a further extension, probably until June. After that, they know very well that you can't go on forever. And therefore an exit strategy will have to be studied.
Above all, the unions fear that companies can take advantage of free all to restructure, putting out the workforce considered superfluous: in the light of the new ways of working, see smart working, but also of the new powerful funds for Industry 4.0, which make cheaper to relieve people in favor of machinery.
The other longer-term theme is that of the Recovery Plan : the unions had asked Conte, and will reiterate Draghi, to involve the social partners. Not in the management of funds, but in the monitoring of expenditure. The current Government Plan, although rewritten and enriched, still does not provide any idea of how and how much, in terms of employment effects and other fundamental objectives.
Therefore, we need a method, a time schedule, something that also allows the trade unions to verify how those 300 billion we are talking about are spent, how the sectors in which to invest will be identified, calling into question, therefore, also a debate on industrial policy.
But the appointment with Draghi will not be just to ask: also to offer. The trade union is reflecting on the possibility of repeating the bright experience of last spring, when, combining their efforts with those of the companies, they developed the famous protocol for safety, which allows the production of Italy not to close completely the doors, but continue to work despite the lock down. What little GDP we have saved, we owe it in large part to this initiative, later adopted by the Conte government.
Today, the trade unions ask themselves, in what way could we be useful to the country again? the answer that is emerging is: vaccine plan. That is, to combine the efforts of trade unions, businesses and the government to develop a truly functioning network of logistics, people, structures, and whatever else will be necessary to be able, in the shortest possible time, to secure the entire population. An essential condition for a restart of the economy, but also of trust and hope. Therefore, a new agreement could start from here, from an extraordinary plan for the country that will allow vaccines to be accelerated to the maximum. Then, everything else will be taken care of.
An "all the rest" that is not little: public administration reform, de-bureaucracy, acceleration of investments, stabilization of precarious workers, tax reform, pension reform and exit from 100, and so on. Lots of stuff, which cannot be addressed and resolved in one appointment. And that, at the moment, the unions intend to deal with different attitudes.
With the CISL aiming at the great concertation pact, like Ciampi 1993, and the CGIL that is only willing to make individual agreements, chapter by chapter, without getting involved in a new season of concertation that leads to a "pact".
This, at least, Landini seems to have reiterated, during the secretariat that the CGIL held on Monday evening to take stock before the meeting with Draghi.
But the feeling is that Landini – a pragmatic man at least as much as Draghi himself, to whom, moreover, he gave a double opening of total credit, first in the TV interview with Lucia Annunziata, and immediately after on the columns of Repubblica – is actually more willing to make a large deal with the government than he publicly claims.
On the other hand, if the future of the country for the next ten years is to be decided, the union cannot not "stay in it". And to stay in it, you need a wide-ranging pact.
(Extract from an article published in the Diary of work; here the full version )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/che-cosa-pensano-cgil-cisl-e-uil-di-draghi-e-che-cosa-gli-diranno/ on Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:03:26 +0000.