What really happens between Abi and Intesa Sanpaolo on the bank contract
The tear of Intesa Sanpaolo in the Abi. The question of the renewal of the bank contract. And the jabs of Sileoni (Fabi). Facts and insights
About a third of bankers will no longer be covered by the national category agreement, which expired in 2022 and was extended to 30 April. This is what Intesa Sanpaolo has decided for its 80,000 employees by revoking the trade union license from the ABI.
From now on, therefore, there will be three social parties sitting at the negotiating table: the Committee for trade union and labor affairs of the ABI (Casl), the trade unions and Intesa Sanpaolo, the group headed by the administrator Carlo Messina .
WHAT INTESA SANPAOLO DECIDED
As reported by the Italian Banking Association itself, through the general manager and secretary of the Casl Giovanni Sabatini, last 27 February Intesa Sanpaolo revoked the "mandate for trade union representation at the ABI to autonomously manage its participation in bargaining". However, the group will continue "to participate – on permanent invitation agreed with ABI – in the future activities of the Trade Union and Labor Committee aimed at preparing and negotiating the renewal of the national collective labor agreement in the banking sector".
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Moreover, in recent times the group led by Carlo Messina has implemented several changes for its workers which have also been addressed for a few months at the union table but without reaching a point of equilibrium ( here the positions of the unions , here that of the bank and here the in-depth study by Startmag ). And in fact the credit acronyms – Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin – have not signed the agreement .
Among the main innovations, as highlighted by Intesa Sanpaolo in a note, "an evolution of smart working with the possibility of flexible working up to 120 days a year, with a meal voucher allowance of 3 euros per day, for also take into account the expenses incurred by working from home, without monthly limits and the short week of 4 days of 9 working hours for equal pay, on a voluntary basis and compatibly with the bank's technical, organizational and production requirements". The banking group, which has launched an experimentation period in around 200 branches, underlined that "the dialogue with the Trade Union Organisations, while taking place in a profitable and constructive manner, did not find agreement on the overall contents, but Intesa Sanpaolo, confirming attention to the people of the Group, will continue to offer the best solutions to those who work in the leading Italian bank, introducing the new features from January 2023".
SILEONI'S ACCUSATIONS TO THE HEAD OF TRADE UNION AFFAIRS
That relations with the trade union world are not idyllic is also testified by what happened on February 21, during the first Casl meeting on the contract, when the general secretary Fabi, Lando Maria Sileoni, went down hard against the head of trade union affairs of Intesa Sanpaolo, Alfio Filosomi, defined as "a talking cricket who in every area tries to be the president of the shadow Casl". For Sileoni, who is keen to clarify his is a "trade union critic", Filosomi "at every opportunity he is a little professor, censorship, he is the first in the class". Furthermore, the trade unionist continues, "he says that Intesa Sanpaolo employees earn more than other employees" and therefore promises that the union's "next demands" will be to "bring the economic conditions of other banks to the same level".
Criticisms also for the fact that Filosomi "on every occasion repeats that in 16 years we have made 1,204 agreements, it is a broken record" while "his disciplinary measures are politically and trade unionally a guillotine for the workers of Intesa". Number one Fabi, who is actually an employee of the group, denounces a "particularly difficult internal climate due to commercial pressures, absurd disciplinary measures, the fact that sectors do not speak to each other". Basically, Sileoni points out, “Intesa Sanpaolo lives, and lives well, thanks to the outstanding initiatives of its CEO, Carlo Messina”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/abi-intesa-sanpaolo-contratto/ on Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:28:23 +0000.