The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, considers the words of the number one of Confindustria Bonomi on the growth of wages linked to second-level bargaining to be "unacceptable".
"On contracts - he said during the programmatic assembly of the Organization - what he says is unacceptable. The majority of workers are in companies where there is no second-level bargaining, giving up national bargaining means planning the reduction of purchasing power ".. If competitive reformism means these things we say there is no need".
In an Inter Corriere della Sera, Bonomi, answering a question about the fact that according to the unions, expensive energy is not considered in the harmonized price index on which wages are based, replied: 'It is not so.
The price of energy goods is there, but it is spread over time to avoid sudden changes like the current one making the index dance.
If wages are to be raised immediately, the road is productivity contracts in every firm, additional to the national contract ".
Bonomi speaks of competitive reformism - Landini said - but do the two words fit together?
reforms must not be competitive, they must be just, redistributive.
Competitive for whom?
Today the problem is not that there is a lack of competitiveness, in the world of work there is too much of people's competitiveness.
Di Vittorio taught us that a fundamental task of the trade union is to prevent the people who have to work from competing with each other in order to live because when this happens we are faced with a war between the poor and a reduction in rights, not general growth " . If faced with the problem of national contracts - continues Landini - and rising inflation, he replies that nothing needs to be changed because the only place where wages must eventually grow is productivity,
where company bargaining takes place, for us this is not acceptable.
Not because we are against company bargaining but because we know perfectly well that in a country made up of small businesses where the majority of workers are in companies where there is no bargaining, if it is not the national contracts that return to having a wage authority and asking the problem of increasing the real value of wages this means accepting the reduction of wages "