Mechanical, a contract for the turn – Il Sole 24 Ore

Producing value. Engineering companies are aware that it is the only chance to remain competitive in a rapidly changing market, increasingly competitive. To achieve this it needs a renewal. New industrial relations: a partnership to create shared value, focusing on the centrality of the person and welfare, along with the factory. An “Italian way to participation” as explained yesterday the president of Federmeccanica Fabio Storchi, during the association’s annual meeting, held in Brescia.

“The originality of our capitalism – he said – requires to start practicing ‘this choice, without imitating models developed in other countries and not be proposed for Italy, but grafted” within that molecular capitalism, family and territory that is the heart and the prevailing part of the Italian manufacture. ” A wage-productivity trade that is the basis of the current discussion between business and unions on the renewal of the contract of the mechanics. “A bad agreement can lead to paralysis of much of the Italian industrial system – said yesterday the president of Confindustria, Vincenzo Boccia -. We have to go in the same direction, and if this is the wage-productivity trade, we have to define together our direction of travel, in the belief that doing good agreements is not only in the interests of the parties, but in the interest of all. “

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Storchi yesterday urged the unions to “abandon a conflict that hurts everyone, workers and enterprises, to resume the path of dialogue, on a new basis. ” Federmeccanica, recalled, has developed a “contract system on two levels, coordinated and complementary to each other, which achieves a more advanced and balanced relationship between fixed and variable remuneration, linked to performance.”

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In the association’s intentions national contract remains” the cornerstone reference – said Storchi – with the protection and guarantee of fundamental rights, leaving room for business contracts “, that the intention should always be related more to the actual production of value.” Coming to the table renewal of the contract (the agreement is currently stalled yesterday in the morning in Brescia FIM-FIOM-Uilm staged a protest rally), Storchi assured that “it is not a muscle clash between two factions. On the contrary – he said – it is a confrontation in which the prerequisite is to understand that the world has changed. ” Federmeccanica does not aspire to create new abstract model contracts, but aims to “a new way of acting, pragmatic, to address the real problems of businesses and people, to whom we must give concrete answers.”

Storchi said that “we must use the language of truth, both in relation to operators and workers. We do not fear the differences – he said – because we consider the comparison as the only way to get the best deal possible.

<'p> The Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tommaso Nannicini, agreed with the Assembly that “the watchwords are contractual welfare and second-level bargaining.” The first issue, in particular, is held in high regard by the government, in the awareness that it is an ‘important tool to create a virtuous exchange between wages and productivity. ” However, he said the Secretary, it is possible that they can be studied incentive mechanisms also on the first level, in view of the centrality of the welfare contract as leverage. “I appreciated the clarity of Storchi – he added – in the passage of his speech in which stressed the need for the enterprise risks should be shared” by contract. “But Biosgna be clear – said the Secretary -. The assumption of risk is the heart of the entrepreneurial function: it must and can be contracted through virtuous paths. The government there – he concluded -, because the topic is of interest of the community “.

For the president of Confindustria, Vincenzo Boccia,” Brescia is now the symbol of Italian industrial issue. ” A province in which the weight of the mechanics is essential, with 8,500 companies and 98 thousand employees, 68% of the total. “From here – he said – we have to ask ourselves what we want industry to imagine, in relation to Germany and report to Brexit. If we do not resolve within the factories an address line on productivity – warned Petanque – we risk losing pieces of Italian industry. You must open a shared responsibility season – said the president -: the government ask an intervention on incentives, not on regulation; banks ask you to judge us also on qualitative values; we ask the union to march in the same direction, in their own role. ” The hope is that “closes as soon as possible – he concluded – we can not afford paralysis”

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