NIn the new hypotheses of the trade union platforms for the renewal of the employment contract, the weight of inflation and the increase in the costs of energy and raw materials are felt. In fact, to maintain the purchasing power of workers, the unions place the request for an economic increase at the top of the fork, as happened just yesterday in the case of the energy and oil sector and in the gas and water sector, where workers are represented by them. acronyms namely Filctem Cgil, Femca Cisl and Uiltec Uil.
Energy and oil: € 195 total increase requested
In the hypothesis of a platform for the renewal of the energy and oil contract, which affects 37 thousand workers and expired at the end of 2021, the unions are asking Confindustria Energia for an overall increase of 195 euros on the average level for the period 2022-2024. The hypothesis takes as reference the Pact of the factory, which provides for a minimum remuneration (Tem) and an overall remuneration (Tec). To guarantee the purchasing power of the workers for the trade unions, the figure will then be able to adapt on the basis of the inflation forecast referring to the three-year period 2022-2024 based on the Istat document of June.
For water gas the request is 185 euros
In the case of the gas and water contract, which involves 48 thousand employees, the reference always remains the Pact of the factory and the request for an increase is 185 euros, again for the three-year period 2022-2024. Also in this case, the trade unions ask for an increase in the minimum wages based on the inflation trend forecast for the next three years, referring to the contractually assumed parameter. In the welfare chapter, for both contracts the unification of the supplementary pension funds is required, providing for the automatic registration of new hires and all those who had not previously signed up to the contract, with the mechanism of silent consent.
The inflationary blaze
The long wave of the pandemic weighs on the negotiations already underway and on future ones, especially on sectors such as trade and tourism, but also the energy and raw materials shock, among the first responsible for the inflamed prices: in January Istat, according to preliminary estimates, records a national index of consumer prices for the entire community, gross of tobacco, increasing by 1.6% on a monthly basis and by 4.8% on an annual basis (it was + 3.9% in the previous month). It is a fact on which in a country like ours, we feel the increase of raw materials and energy, given the scarcity of our own sources and the need for supplies outside the borders. A chapter that remains partly on the margins of the IPCA, the reference index for contracts, which is calculated net of imported energy costs.
The countercyclical elements requested by the CISL
In a context where, if industry is excluded, contractual wages have a modest growth, the confederal secretary of the CISL, Giulio Romani, says that “economic negotiations will have to take into account the fact that the inflation index does not appear, at least in the short medium term, can be easily governed with the policies adopted since the 1990s “. This is also because “the current dynamics are almost exclusively connected to the increase in the cost of raw materials, not only those for energy use, effectively escaping the possibility of national control”. It is therefore necessary to “introduce anti-cyclical elements into the distribution of wealth,” says Romani.