To emphasize the distance between what the secretaries of Cgil and Uil in the television lounges or in the squares and the reality are declared, there are the renewals of the national collective agreements: Landini with Foga talks about insufficient wages of workers in Italy, even indignant about a contract that provides for 5 euros gross the hour as that of the trustees, forgetting that his union has also signed him.
Thus, while twenty of war rage and increases the price of all goods and services, including basic necessities, in Italy there are substantial funds for rearmament and national work contracts are renewed with increases that do not even allow to equalize the loss of purchasing power of the last few years, also due to the erosion of the indirect salary.
“Lower the weapons and raise the wages“It is not only a slogan but the key claim of those who imagine a country where there is the possibility of living a dignified life and without witnessing massacres of peoples.
In front of the 800 billion European billion provided for weapons, 35 billion per year for Italy, workers and workers with CCNL Multiservizi, the confederal unions offer, for one of the poorest contracts in the country, increases in 215 euros gross at the 2nd level spread in 3 years.
A proposal that makes fun of the common sense of workers and workers in the sector, who will remain poor despite Landini’s bombastic proclamations on the need to increase wages and the constant practice of not doing it.
Commission on the sphere of application of the contract – For a long time, the multiservice contract has been used by companies in the most disparate sectors to keep the cost of labor low, in the silence of the signatory unions. Today that the workers have started to raise their heads and request the application of correct contracts that reflect the real tasks carried out, the confederals insert the proposal to compose a commission to evaluate the sphere of application of the contract; Commission that at best in 1 year will publish the result of a study, to tell us what we already know.
It would have been much simpler and above all useful to immediately insert a precise field of application, excluding many activities that notoriously abuse of the CCNL and that with the duties of the multiservice they have nothing to do with it. Simple and useful but evidently not convenient for all those companies that improperly apply it; Better not to disturb the masters too much.
Part time and working hours – the unions will be able to request the joint exam to request the consolidation of the additional time carried out during the year by the worker in a structural way. Will all the timetable be consolidated? Of course not.
Hypothesis a): if the company responds within 20 days to the request for joint examination, the consolidation of 15% of the additional time carried out in a structural way during the year by the worker is required.
Hypothesis b): if the company does not respond to the joint examination request, the worker will be entitled to consolidation of 30% of the additional time carried out in a structural way during the year.
Let’s take an example for clarity: if a worker is employed to 4 hours daily and performs 8 hours structurally, the hourly percentage of 4 to 4.36 or a 36-minute increase is increased in case of hypothesis a), of 72 minutes in case of hypotheses b).
This point establishes negligible increases of time in the face of an additional structured, often used by companies as a strategy in order not to mature holidays, permits (etc.). Those who work in union know that in these cases if you go to a work judge, the complete consolidation of the time is obtained; This de facto proposal seems to be a help to companies to continue to take advantage of the extra without having to risk with unfavorable sentences.
To combat low wages due to the minimum contractual minimums in 14 hours per week, we move on to 15, great conquest for the workers. Amazing irony since most of the multiservice workers are used for part-time with a miserable hourly wage aggravated by the few hours planned. Summer then that immediately afterwards it is specified that in any case contracts stipulated at a time of less than 15 hours do not constitute violation of the contract, a rule already present and confirmed.
Disease and accident treatment – A useless addition has been inserted: the worker has the right to ask the company for the number of absences due to illness carried out and the company has the obligation to respond within 15 days, an obligation already foreseen, even if it was not written, from the rules of correctness and good faith on which an employment relationship is established.
We define the company-union combinable in considering the phenomenon of “short” morbidity in order to prevent abuse and therefore be able to intervene with change proposals in the next contract renewal. Will the confederal unions take responsibility for the negotiation tables to report that workers and workers with CCNL Multiservizi carry out a tiring activity and often get sick for lack of the application of health prevention rules? The data on occupational disease in the sector speak clearly.
Leave for women victims of gender violence – Nothing concrete that goes beyond the law with its forecasts. Yet in the sector the harassment that women suffer high percentages.
The only concrete addition to the legislation is already current is the possibility that the employer associations are available to evaluate the relocation of the worker, victim of violence, also in other companies in the sector where it is not possible in the company where it is employed.
Look carefully, they are available to evaluate, it is not written that they commit themselves to doing it and we already know the huge walls of silence that rise in these circumstances.
With what union method do you go towards renewal? – zero consideration of the needs of workers and workers. Zero assemblies to share the platform and to transpose the proposals and dialogue with whom the person concerned is. Zero possibilities to reject an agreement because the referendums are not made and do not want to do.
Our comment as USB – National Multiservice Coordination
The negligible wage increase of this renewal does not correspond to real inflation and is not enough to cover the increases in all goods, even essential, which we have been witnessing for years now.
This contract and its renewal crystallize, with the complicity of the confederal unions, a poor salary that remains such and does not correspond to the struggling of the performance of the sector. On the other hand, it should be considered that the sector is characterized by part time contracts and that therefore those 215 euros in most cases are to be considered halved in 107 euros for those who arrive to make 4 hours a day, less for those who are with part time at 13/15/17 hours.
We reiterate that there is an abysmal distance between the needs of workers and workers and those of the concert unions that sit at the table to treat without asking the problem of poverty, which affects more and more those who have a job.
We, who with the workers and workers are confronted every day, in the renewal platform we would have proposed
- Increases in the basic pay of 517.27 euros for the second level of the contract.
- Minimum part-time hours 25 hours per week and full consolidation of the additional time carried out in a structural way.
- Repeal of art. 4 of the CCNL and maintenance of the same wage conditions in the event of a contract change.
- Obligation to carry out the elections for the RSU in each production unit for the right of workers and workers to choose who to be represented by.
- Increase in all disadvantaged work allowances equal to 20% of the table pay.
- Mandatory annual courses on safety and health to be carried out to all workers and workers during working hours.
- Annual courses on women’s rights against gender violence and harassment. for everyone to be held in the workplace and with the presence of qualified experts on the topic.
We start immediately and ask for consistency with what is said in the lounges and squares and what you do.
The battle on salary does not stop with a 4 -money renewal, we will continue to organize and fight to make the difference. We build a mobilization for autumn to show him that the measure is full and we no longer receive “alms”.
