A-Infos (en) Italy, FDCA, Cantiere #25 - Trade. A difficult contract renewal - Diego Zacco (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

What emerged from the meeting on 23 February with Confcommercio. ---- If 
on the one hand the "strong reduction" on seniority and fourteenth 
salary increases has been removed from the discussion, on the other hand 
the employer association's approach on regulatory content and salary has 
not undergone changes. ---- The request to provide for a seasonal 
fixed-term contract linked to periods of greater work intensity 
represents a total deregulation of fixed-term hiring. As if our 
professional lives weren't already precarious enough: too often, in 
fact, we move from one expiring contract to another and it doesn't 
matter how many years you've been doing this job.
The permanent contract for many of us is a mirage.
Furthermore, Confcommercio has not implemented any requests from the 
trade union organizations regarding the fight against poor work, 
procurement, franchising, exercise of the right to assembly and the 
right to individual training; regarding this last point, he proposes, on 
the contrary, to intervene on paid leave in order to finance training. 
So monetize our free time and exchange it to economically support a path 
of professional growth with a view to greater productivity and therefore 
greater profits for the bosses.
It's a shame that commercial workers need to take the opposite path: not 
to sell out, but to regain that free time that the system has taken away 
from us with an increase in hourly flexibility aimed solely at worsening 
the work-life balance.
After the SalvaItalia Decree of 2011, under the Monti government, it has 
become normal for workers in the trade to carry out their duties every 
day of the year, Sundays and holidays included, with unseemly wages, 
stuck until 2019, not in line with the previous and current inflation 
dynamics.
From this point of view, the owners go so far as to propose a 200 euro 
increase for the fourth level plus a one-off payment, obviously not 
quantified, to cover the contractual holiday period.
Thank you!
Continuing like this, the employers' associations will exasperate the 
spirits of all of us, because working in commercial establishments in 
2024 has become a struggle for survival: exhausting workloads that 
involve tasks outside the employment contract, overtime taken for 
granted, often unpaid and a sincere thanks to the employer who, in 
reality, we discover is a benefactor of exploitation!
We are considered only a workforce and we are treated as invisible 
workers, like many others who every day have to face a slope of 
blackmail and lack of opportunities for emancipation.
Last week we went on strike for March 8th, International Women's Day, 
since even in our sector gender discrimination is always around the 
corner: for example, during interviews, employers often want to know if 
you are about to have children, if you plan to have them or if you 
already have them. If you live alone and what profession your partner 
has. It feels like finding yourself in a bank while applying for a 
mortgage, not at a job interview.
Even if we are invisible to some, we are many and we are tired of this 
life without prospects and without a future. We are filled with an anger 
that we cannot express and therefore ready to explode.
We are a social pressure cooker that the system does not want to see and 
does not want to show, with politics that does not even know that we 
exist and the mass media, which have become exclusively means of 
producing consensus, which obscure all our initiatives and which do not 
give the right emphasis on our claims.
The bosses who enjoy our sweat without doing anything and pontificate 
over our heads should worry about all this.
Let's commit ourselves, then, to raising the level of protest: let's 
strike and vacate the jobs. We organize events and demonstrations. Let's 
organize them sign by sign, city by city, territory by territory.
Let's bring the protest geographically closer to the workplace; we need 
everyone's support and even if our colleagues are not historically used 
to taking to the streets, we involve and encourage participation with 
local initiatives.
Comrades, if it is true that the bosses only care about their own profit 
and image, we as a trade union organization must create the conditions 
for mass participation in the strike: a flood of workers who leave as 
many businesses closed as possible commercial potential and which also 
create inconvenience for our customers.
May they finally see us!
It could be our last chance to overturn the balance of power and return 
to the negotiating table with a strategy: bring the bosses to their knees.

*Filcams-CGIL Livorno delegate

https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
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