Agencies , the salaries of temporary workers who end up in the coffers of the unionsContributions to the CGIL, CISL and UIL constitute the " unitary support for union representatives ." They claim to have used that money, more than two million Euros in 2012 , to improve , among other things , the rules on equal treatment, tools and controls for income support . But the compensation of 500 thousand that have signed the supply contract work is not yet adapted to that of the employees 'normal'Salvatore Reedy | November 11, 2013Comments ( 1347 )
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When in a contract to earn the unions are especially things do not work as they should. Especially if the first signing of the contract is that of Guglielmo Epifani ( in 2008 , along with Bonanni and Angeletti ) . Yet , reading between the lines of the " Collective Bargaining Agreement of the agencies of administration work," the old agencies, it turns out that there is provided a transfer of money to the unions as " support for the unitary system of union representation ." We're talking about 2 million euro per year paid by now, since 2002.
Power of a complicated area as the super- precarious work , that of the administration , where there is a relationship between two people , employee - employer, but three : worker , agency administration , user undertaking . The Agency plays a mediating role by taking direct the employee and then " by lending " to the company , upon request, generally for a fixed-term contract . We are talking about more than half a million people ( 2011 figures of Assolavoro , the employers' association of agencies ) for about half placed in manufacturing ( 52%) and the rest divided between Business Services and IT ( 17%), Commerce ( 11%), Public administration , health and education (9% ) and many other areas.
The system was introduced in 1997 by the then Minister Treu and reformed by the center with the " Biagi Law " in 2003. This segment is regulated by a national collective agreement signed to agencies, on Assolavoro , and for the union, the CGIL - Nidil , Felsa - CISL, UIL -Temp . Being a highly fragmented sector , with workers who do not serve at your specific employer ( agencies ), but in enterprises spread throughout the country , there are stewards of the business or factory, but directly appointed by the union.
For this type of union activity , already in the contract of 2002 , it was determined that the signatory organizations benefited from a contribution of each hour worked in 1700 , the value of 7.75 euro per hour . In 2008, this value was increased to 10 euro per hour . Do the math : in 2011 were 316 million work hours. Taking the report had made ​​from it 1.8 million Euros transferred to the unions. In the new contract in September 2013 , has improved again: the remuneration will be paid for every hour worked in 1500 . An increase of 13 % that is added to the 30 % previously. The total hours of 2012 decreased to 302 million , but the amount split between the three unions has risen to 2 million.
What do the unions with that money ? "According to a resolution of our board of directors - Fact explains Claudio Treves , general secretary of the CGIL Nidil - , 70% is intended to support our local projects ." Looking at the balance of trade union , the largest of the three, does not seem to be so. In 2012 the revenue for " union dues " amounted to € 719,505 € while the "Contributions to structures " are the sum of 301,842 Euros . In fact the funds for " local projects " are still less, 212,500 or 29.5 % of the amount collected . The rest of the costs of the union is absorbed by expenses for activities , overhead, and most importantly, personnel expenses and collaborations : 760 122 EUR . Overall, the budget is at a loss for 286,274 Euros .
The Nidil speaks of maximum transparency of the funds, but it is not clear whether all the employees know the mechanism . As for the workers themselves the advantages of representation are contested . The union claims to have so far "improved rules concerning the equal treatment of auditors, controls , means of income support ( maternity, unemployment ) , etc" . A former trade unionist who has followed the industry , however, points out how the system of remuneration of temporary workers is hiding a detail that penalizes precisely the latter .
The law, in fact, provides for the temporary " treatment no less than that to which employees are entitled to the same level of the user ." This principle was reiterated until 2008 with the application to the temporary contract of the same divisor ( the coefficient that measures the hourly wage ), which applies to contracts for the category in which they are sent on a mission. In the contract of 2008 , however, was introduced a divider specific contract for temporary workers . When this is equivalent to that of other contracts (on average it is) there is no problem. But when an employee is to deal with dividers in the individual categories that make hourly wages higher than that of which he is eligible , the employee is disadvantaged . It so happens in Commerce, in Transport , in government , in education or health , and in still others . The difference in wages for the worker is minimal, a few cents. " No worker - explained the former trade unionist - intenterebbe a dispute for pennies with the prospect of losing their jobs ." Those few cents multiplied by the tens of millions of hours worked , however, can lead to savings for the agencies in the order of 10 or 20 million euro per year. Nothing illegal . Just one of many contradictions that agitate the union. Not surprisingly, in the CGIL has opened a discussion on whether or not a union as the Nidil .
From The Daily of November 6, 2013REPLICA OF THE CGIL : " INVEST IN THE 70% AND REGIONAL PROJECTS "About what was published on November 6 knowing Daily article, " The unions earn on the shoulders of precarious " , signed by Salvatore Reedy , I wish to emphasize the following. The contribution to support for union representation, collective labor agreement introduced in 2002 and updated with the hypothesis of agreement of September 27 , aims - it seems legitimate - to support the work of the trade union for the protection of persons, such as workers administered , the duration of the relationship does not exceed , on average, 45 days. This is why the cost has been charged to agencies and addressed the institution bilateral sector , which pours trade unions in the sector. It was the mutualisation of an institution that just the nature of work in administration actually makes it unlikely to be received . NIdiL - CGIL therefore decided by a resolution of its executive board that 70% of these sums were available for projects for establishment and strengthening of local structures , which does not correspond with the given budget - curiously in your possession - comes from number of projects submitted . With regard to the judgments of the unknown " former union of category" highlight , as explained in conversation with the author of the article but not in the text , that the principle of equal treatment has been strengthened with the recent renewal of the contract . Finally , we consider offensive and heavily damaging the image of the union both the title and the enclosed article , which dangles the idea that on the one hand Nidil not defend workers from abuse and the other is enriched with dations of agencies , and " why " someone is thinking of CGIL " delete Nidil ." On the other hand , a proper protection of our image we have already given legal mandate for a lawsuit against you.Claudio Treves , General Secretary of CGIL - Nidil
 The only deductions are those made in this letter. We will, as usual, we just report the facts, uncontested , including the version of the union even though his secretary, due to work commitments , was able to devote only eight minutes. Even the enclosed article , far from " hold out " offensive ideas , is based on facts such as the document 's congressional minority CGIL where , in 2010 , it said that " the experience of Nidil has had its day " ( Sc ) .