FLAICA UNITED CUB CONGRESS - TRADE & SERVICES - 25 AND 26 MARCH 2022 ---- The
fifth national congress FLAICA UNITED CUB - Federation of Agro-Industry Commerceand Related Workers will be held on 25 and 26 March in Sorrento (NA), animportant opportunity to take stock of the various problems affecting workingsectors that, already difficulties for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic,now they are facing further heavy relapses following the conflict that broke outin Ukraine at the end of February. We asked the Flaica national secretary, aswell as the Cub national secretary, Marcelo Amendola what will be the main issuesthat will be discussed by the delegates and what the objectives that Flaica hasin the medium and long term, in relation to the specificities on the territory"Flaica represents an avant-garde in the fight against insecurity - SecretaryAmendola tells us - in fact, some of the most vulnerable sectors from acontractual point of view fall within its federative context: Multiservices , awidely used contract, with which employers they often aim at trying to reducewages, squeeze rights, in a word, to make workers precarious. In this sense, Ibelieve that the provisions of the contracts applied as fiduciary services(concerning, for example, supervisory workers) are literally shameful as they arevery similar to that of multiservices, where hourly wages are lower than what isestablished by law, an aspect on which among other things, the judiciary hasalready clearly expressed (The Court of Milan - Labor Section through thesentence 1613/2018 declares the illegality of the remuneration provided by theCCNL Servizi Fiduciari signed by CGIL and CISL for violation of art. 36 of theConstitution and condemns the company to pay the wage differences to the worker,taking the wages of the Multiservice CCNL as a reference).Another sector in which Flaica is particularly active is that of tourism , forwhich the contracts and current legislation are in our opinion extremely lackingto overcome the objective problems that workers have to face and on which Flaicahas been conducting a targeted activity for some time, in order to dismantle whatwas introduced with the launch of the Jobs Act starting from 2015. A targetedshock absorber system for the tourism sector is missing.And then there is the agriculture sector , which goes unnoticed but, according tothe latest Istat data, extrapolated from the Cub Center of Venice for 2021 , itis the category that counts the most deaths in the workplace, equal to 30, 22% ofthe total. A sector in which undeclared work is a widespread practice, like theplague of illegal hiring , for which official data only photograph the tip of theiceberg.Finally, Flaica also competes with the whole world, which refers to urban hygieneservices and the food industry , where at the moment we are suffering from thedifficulties in getting into jobs for various reasons, although Flaica as a wholecan boast a capillary presence on the entire national territory, with about fiftyfederations from Trentino to Sicily ".The NASpI"The New Social Insurance for Employment (NASpI) is a monthly unemploymentallowance, established by article 1, dl March 4, 2015, n. 22 - which replaces theprevious ASpI and MiniASpI unemployment benefits - in relation to the involuntaryunemployment events that occurred starting from 1 May 2015. On this Flaica, asmentioned, has been waging a battle for some time to have a change insertedspecifically aimed at workers in the tourism sector, which operate in territoriesby definition with a tourist vocation, I am thinking of the islands, where thereare no other relevant productive activities and where the work is concentrated insix months a year, with extreme cases in which it is possible to reach eightmonths of activity but not beyond. Prior to the introduction of Naspi, the workerreceived an unemployment allowance to cover the months of inactivity while nowthe coverage covers only half of the time actually worked. On average, therefore,a worker is employed for 6 months a year, in which case Naspi covers the workers'incomes for a period of three months, thus leaving three months a year completelyuncovered, in which people have no right to any kind. of economic support.We therefore requested changes to the law, on which the Government has not yetprovided concrete answers. What we are asking for is a guarantee for tourismworkers, with specific social safety nets for those territories.An example of this is what happened with the introduction of vouchers, which atthe time led to a dizzying decline in recruitment in the tourism sector. When in2016/17 on this topic, Flaica like other trade unions. they denounced the stateof affairs, the Government had to admit the non-applicability of this form ofadministration of work for the sector and, the following year, the recruitmentsreturned to previous levels.First the pandemic, now the war"The pandemic has enormously accentuated the problems already discounted by thetourism sector, for two reasons: It has made it clear that there are no socialsafety nets that adequately cover this type of worker, moreover, a mechanism hasbeen created for which some companies have received by the state of contributionswhile many workers do not. Of course, then various bonuses and refreshments werepaid but the workers, who already received a meager pay, did not have supportworthy of the name and in the end they were left without any protectionwhatsoever and were then dismissed at the end of the contract.With regard to current events, with a conflict taking place in the heart ofEurope, first of all I would like to say that Flaica and the Cub are against anykind of war, which unfortunately the world is full of. These are imperialist warswhere it is always the poor people who pay, especially the children.The war economy , which sooner or later will unload on each of us, will impactall the more on sectors already in great difficulty due to Covid-19 and what hasbeen achieved economically and socially.The problem is represented not so much by Russian customers, today considered ascoming from a 'criminal' nation and therefore rejected but who until yesterdaydespite the opaque origin of their money were welcomed with open arms, but itwill be caused by what awaits everyone those, and they are the majority, who willdecide not to leave for the holidays, not to consume at the restaurant becausethey are impoverished due to the impressive increase in the cost of energy, fueland raw materials. A very big problem therefore awaits us: the tourism sector, aswith the pandemic, will be the first to absorb the blow, because it is the onethat in a certain sense lives most of the day, but immediately afterwards we willsee the same with trade, the agriculture, industry, because there will begin tobe a decline in production in more and more sectors.All due to the increase in the cost of raw materials , which is to be consideredscandalous, since in many cases it has nothing to do with Russia, Ukraine and thewar, it is instead mere speculation , attributable to the typical dynamics of thecapitalism, so it is always the workers who pay ".The Congress: Goals and perspectivesThe Congress will take place at an important moment: Our federation, despitebeing strongly affected by the pandemic, is attending this year's congress with aconsistent and even greater number of delegates than the previous one in April2015, which says a lot about the work done over the years.The objective we set ourselves is the further relaunch of the Flaica, believingthat there is still a large margin of growth for our federation, which can onlybring new resources to the United Basic Confederation as a whole.Flaica currently represents the federation with the largest number of members, soit is our intention to continue along the path we have undertaken, committingourselves as much and more than before, to increase coverage in the areas wherewe are not yet consistently present in the short term.https://www.cub.it/index.php/192-notizie/in-evidenza/14973-congresso-flaica-25-26-marzo-intervista-al-segretario-nazionale-marcelo-amendola_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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