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This article was published on July 6, 2015 at 19:48.
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Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant low cost tradition of good labor relations here, cashing the first national strike in its history Italian. Saturday, July 11 employees of 21 store brand gialloblù cross their arms and organize principals from one end of the boot to protest against the positions that the company has taken in the negotiations for the renewal dell’integrativo.
It is not the first strike ever: June 6, following the cancellation of the contract to the second level, there were already eight hours of mobilization managed on a territorial basis but made almost in unison, which were added a few events at local (particularly in Padua and Bari). Yet another black smoke which was reached the discussion table, however, led Filcams Cgil, Cisl and Fisascat Uiltucs UIL to raise the level of confrontation, with a national mobilization. The “nodes” that have so far made it impossible to find the square are three: Sundays and holidays; company bonus; participation prize. On the first front, the company proposes to pass from the scale provided by the supplementary old (70% to 120% for Sunday and holiday) to a new system that starts from a surcharge of 30% and go up depending on the number of Sundays and Holidays machined from single employee. Proposal judged inadmissible by the initials for a company that, over 6,431 workers, has an incidence rate of part-time rate of 70 percent. Ikea intends to then transform the current business award, “fixed” in a variable premium. Plus aims to introduce in our country Ikea Bonus Program to evaluate parameters such as sales, margins, productivity and operating result (of this last chapter, the unions appear less rigid but demand greater role in the monitoring system).
How is it that, from the historical good relations, it has come to this tightening of the comparison? The crisis must not have certainly played a favorable role. Nell’annualità 2011-2012 Italy was the fifth world market for Ikea, but now slipped to eighth place. The turnover in four years has fallen by 85 million, and from 2012 to today the Swedish giant has accumulated losses of 52 million. All this in spite of two new openings of shopping centers. The idea of the group seems to be in short recover resources from trading to return to invest in the development, but the unions dropped the frost. The official statement of the Swedish company is lapidary: “The intransigence of the union does not contribute to a positive outlook of the confrontation started.” Why it should be noted that Ikea, in these difficult years for everyone, not closed stores or laid off, as has happened to other players in the sector. Opposite the analysis of the abbreviations. For Vincenzo Dell’Orefice of Filcams, Ikea should be “consistent with the statements of principle that has repeatedly done during this surreal deal: If you claim to a stronger link between the wage business to the results actually achieved, one can not proceed with linear cuts dry. ” The company, according to Giuliana Messina Filcams, “seems not to settle most of the fabulous profits guaranteed by its formula of holding, franchises and various foundations, but he wants to finance its development are the sacrifices of his own employees.” Ivana Veronese of Uiltucs stresses “the high degree of awareness of workers to the events affecting the group. Everything announces a big participation in the strike on Monday. ” And a fiery return to the negotiating table, on 22 July.
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