Inflation has reached such levels that, already in the autumn, the unions warn, the request for a 210 euro increase in the salary scales that the insurance unions have made to Ania for the renewal of the national collective labor agreement for 45 thousand employees of the companies insurance, it will no longer be enough. Today, union sources explain, they cover inflation and productivity and correspond to an increase of 10%. With these rates of growth in inflation, however, in a few months they will no longer be sufficient to cover it.
The platform that the national secretaries of Fisac Cgil, Luca Esposito, First Cisl, Roberto Garibotti, Uilca, Emanuele Bartolucci, and the general secretaries of Fna, Viviana Oggioni and Snfia, Stefano Ponzoni, illustrated in Ania, in Milan, is the daughter of the phase final of the pandemic shock that is not yet completely behind us, but before everything else. And that is to the energy shock, the prices of raw materials and the Ukrainian war. In a sector where a particular solidity and profitability must be recognized, these are however additional elements of uncertainty for companies that will affect the development of a negotiation that must renew a contract that has now expired a few months ago.
On the trade union side, according to what the acronyms write in a note, there is a strong unitary spirit, as demonstrated by the great consensus expressed in the assemblies and this suggests a constructive, concrete negotiation that goes straight to the substance of the issues. On the employer’s side, surely there are at least 2 elements to take into account. The first is the game of Generali, and the outcome of the assembly on 29 April. The second is the executive committee of Ania which will have to express itself on the platform. The fact that the parties have already made an appointment on May 24 and have therefore already scheduled a new meeting suggests a certain concreteness in the approach to negotiations.