CISL and UIL sigh with relief, CGIL shakes its head still perplexed: the draft agreement proposed by the Cerruti wool mill for the thirty redundancies announced in February has not found unanimity among the workers’ representatives. “They are certainly not predictable results – the acronyms that adhered to the pre-agreement write in the press release – that would not have been obtained without the strong commitment of the trade unions in comparison with the company”. The CGIL replies: “It was not possible to accept an agreement where a year of social safety nets was exchanged, the use of which in the event of a crisis is provided for by the Biella territorial supplement, with the acceptance of layoffs at the end of the year and with the possibility for the company to choose who to dismiss in derogation of the principles of the law “.
The proposal of the Cerruti leaders is from recent days and has come at the end of weeks of meetings, negotiations and mediations. The announcement of the restructuring that would affect thirty employees came a bit of a surprise, shortly after the signing of the contract for the purchase of thirty modern and less electricity-hungry chassis and along with the optimistic announcements about the post-pandemic recovery. The possible confrontation had turned into an attempt to be halfway there, with the company reiterating the need to reorganize and the unions asking to minimize the social impact. The agreement that has found the yes of Cisl and Uil (who are the majority in the RSU) includes a year of social safety nets, a period during which the workforce is destined to drop due to incentive retirements and resignations, with some employees who are already in test in other wool mills. At the end there will be the final scissor stroke and this is the point disputed by the CGIL which does not accept the exceptions requested from the rule that conditions the choices on cuts to criteria such as length of service and family responsibilities.