What is happening in the world of work helps us understand the reasons
for the continued consensus towards the Meloni Government. This is
demonstrated by the events relating to the signing of the National Labor
Contract for the sector of workers in central functions. During the
negotiations, making a sudden coup, the Cisl broke the confederal front
and together with the autonomous unions of the sector, signed a
preliminary agreement that concludes the negotiation for the renewal of
the labor contract for the two-year period 2022-2024. The unions in
question believe they had every right to sign the agreement, strong in
the fact that they represent 54% of the category as a whole and
therefore the majority made up of 195,000 workers, as they claim to have
45,096 members in the entire sector.
As is known, our country does not have a law on union representation and
therefore, faced with the questionable data on the writings provided by
the aforementioned unions, Cgil and Uil and USB of the sector have
called a referendum among the workers of the sector, in the belief that
beyond the signed delegation, the opinions of the workers should be
measured on the contents of the draft agreement rather than on a
delegation granted once and for all. This referendum, held thanks to the
mobilization of the category, saw the participation of more than 40,000
workers and gave an unequivocal result: 98% of those who participated in
the vote rejected the draft agreement. In commenting on this result, the
signatory unions, accomplices of the government, who in the last
elections for the renewal of the RSU obtained 79,660 votes and that
"therefore it is not understood for what logical reason the choice of
the signatory organizations representing 54% of the workers of the
sector is not considered democratic". Ultimately, the yellow unions that
signed the agreement point out that, compared to the overall number of
workers in the sector, those who expressed themselves in the referendum
constitute only 20% of the category. The objection of Cisl Funzione
Pubblica, Confsal FP and Confintesa FP legitimises their intention to
proceed with the signing of the agreement, if it were not for the fact
that accepting an increase equal to 5.78% of the total wages means
settling for an increase higher than both the 4.07% of the three-year
period 2019-2021 and the 3.48% of the period 2016-2018, and this
certainly constitutes an improvement, but only if we refer to the
nominal value of the increases. But given that inflation has increased
in the meantime, the contractual increase obtained does not recover it
because to compensate for the loss of purchasing power accumulated in
the three-year period 2022-2024, 16 points of table increase would have
been necessary. This is the underlying reason that pushed the 40,000 to
vote against the proposed agreement and that is the basis of the
position of Fp-Cgil, Uil-Pa and USB convinced that the damage of this
choice could go beyond this contract, given that the Government has
already predetermined the amount of wage increases for the future, with
the aim of achieving further wage reductions.
The financial policy of this government, in the face of industrial
production that has been declining for 24 months and growing
difficulties in exports, to deal with the higher costs resulting from a
constant growth in energy, due to the Ukrainian war, has adopted the
policy of restricting domestic consumption, so as to improve the
relationship with exports, thus burdening the decreased spending
capacity of workers, the cost of the economic crisis and of an economy
that seems to be in more difficulty. Similar choices are being made with
respect to the labor market, where an extremely high employment rate,
obtained by considering employed even those who occasionally work a few
hours during the week, corresponds to the provision of wages below the
subsistence level, thus increasing the number of poor or incapable workers.
For this reason, the 2022-2024 contract renewal of central sector
workers is not at stake, but more generally the ability of the union to
carry out its function of defending workers' rights, starting with the
right to an adequate salary. It is therefore serious that we accept that
the government, with the clear support of some trade union
organizations, sterilizes bargaining, removing the salary issue from the
negotiation and implementing a policy of reducing the cost of public
labor, to the detriment of workers in the sector and in general. It is
also extremely serious that all this is happening while the ministerial
counterpart is worsening the conditions for managing working hours,
reducing contractual welfare spending within the ceiling of the funds
for additional wages, which remain blocked, penalizing productivity
growth, blaming all this on the union, because it responsibly refuses to
sign agreements that reduce the price. By deciding not to sign, Fp-Cgil,
Uil-Pa and USB have taken on the exasperation of workers who are
struggling to survive in the face of increasingly difficult living
conditions and are asking that the valorization of public work is not a
slogan, but is achieved through concrete economic and regulatory
interventions. In fact, what Cisl Funzione Pubblica, Confsal FP and
Confintesa FP are asking workers is to wait nine years and three
contracts in order not to recover what the paychecks of public employees
lost in 2022 and 2023: this is offensive to the dignity of workers in
central functions, as well as those in health and local authorities. The
latter have understood this well and therefore keep the contractual
dispute open and jointly try to develop the negotiation to achieve the
commonly shared objectives of higher wages and better working conditions.
Rocco Petrone
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/01/25/il-cappio-del-sindacalismo-giallo/
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for the continued consensus towards the Meloni Government. This is
demonstrated by the events relating to the signing of the National Labor
Contract for the sector of workers in central functions. During the
negotiations, making a sudden coup, the Cisl broke the confederal front
and together with the autonomous unions of the sector, signed a
preliminary agreement that concludes the negotiation for the renewal of
the labor contract for the two-year period 2022-2024. The unions in
question believe they had every right to sign the agreement, strong in
the fact that they represent 54% of the category as a whole and
therefore the majority made up of 195,000 workers, as they claim to have
45,096 members in the entire sector.
As is known, our country does not have a law on union representation and
therefore, faced with the questionable data on the writings provided by
the aforementioned unions, Cgil and Uil and USB of the sector have
called a referendum among the workers of the sector, in the belief that
beyond the signed delegation, the opinions of the workers should be
measured on the contents of the draft agreement rather than on a
delegation granted once and for all. This referendum, held thanks to the
mobilization of the category, saw the participation of more than 40,000
workers and gave an unequivocal result: 98% of those who participated in
the vote rejected the draft agreement. In commenting on this result, the
signatory unions, accomplices of the government, who in the last
elections for the renewal of the RSU obtained 79,660 votes and that
"therefore it is not understood for what logical reason the choice of
the signatory organizations representing 54% of the workers of the
sector is not considered democratic". Ultimately, the yellow unions that
signed the agreement point out that, compared to the overall number of
workers in the sector, those who expressed themselves in the referendum
constitute only 20% of the category. The objection of Cisl Funzione
Pubblica, Confsal FP and Confintesa FP legitimises their intention to
proceed with the signing of the agreement, if it were not for the fact
that accepting an increase equal to 5.78% of the total wages means
settling for an increase higher than both the 4.07% of the three-year
period 2019-2021 and the 3.48% of the period 2016-2018, and this
certainly constitutes an improvement, but only if we refer to the
nominal value of the increases. But given that inflation has increased
in the meantime, the contractual increase obtained does not recover it
because to compensate for the loss of purchasing power accumulated in
the three-year period 2022-2024, 16 points of table increase would have
been necessary. This is the underlying reason that pushed the 40,000 to
vote against the proposed agreement and that is the basis of the
position of Fp-Cgil, Uil-Pa and USB convinced that the damage of this
choice could go beyond this contract, given that the Government has
already predetermined the amount of wage increases for the future, with
the aim of achieving further wage reductions.
The financial policy of this government, in the face of industrial
production that has been declining for 24 months and growing
difficulties in exports, to deal with the higher costs resulting from a
constant growth in energy, due to the Ukrainian war, has adopted the
policy of restricting domestic consumption, so as to improve the
relationship with exports, thus burdening the decreased spending
capacity of workers, the cost of the economic crisis and of an economy
that seems to be in more difficulty. Similar choices are being made with
respect to the labor market, where an extremely high employment rate,
obtained by considering employed even those who occasionally work a few
hours during the week, corresponds to the provision of wages below the
subsistence level, thus increasing the number of poor or incapable workers.
For this reason, the 2022-2024 contract renewal of central sector
workers is not at stake, but more generally the ability of the union to
carry out its function of defending workers' rights, starting with the
right to an adequate salary. It is therefore serious that we accept that
the government, with the clear support of some trade union
organizations, sterilizes bargaining, removing the salary issue from the
negotiation and implementing a policy of reducing the cost of public
labor, to the detriment of workers in the sector and in general. It is
also extremely serious that all this is happening while the ministerial
counterpart is worsening the conditions for managing working hours,
reducing contractual welfare spending within the ceiling of the funds
for additional wages, which remain blocked, penalizing productivity
growth, blaming all this on the union, because it responsibly refuses to
sign agreements that reduce the price. By deciding not to sign, Fp-Cgil,
Uil-Pa and USB have taken on the exasperation of workers who are
struggling to survive in the face of increasingly difficult living
conditions and are asking that the valorization of public work is not a
slogan, but is achieved through concrete economic and regulatory
interventions. In fact, what Cisl Funzione Pubblica, Confsal FP and
Confintesa FP are asking workers is to wait nine years and three
contracts in order not to recover what the paychecks of public employees
lost in 2022 and 2023: this is offensive to the dignity of workers in
central functions, as well as those in health and local authorities. The
latter have understood this well and therefore keep the contractual
dispute open and jointly try to develop the negotiation to achieve the
commonly shared objectives of higher wages and better working conditions.
Rocco Petrone
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/01/25/il-cappio-del-sindacalismo-giallo/
_________________________________________
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