On July 11, Fiat Spa, CNH Industrial (holding for trucks and buses), and the -Cisl, Fismic, Uilm-Uil, UGL Metalmeccanici and Associazione Quadri e Capi Fiat unions renewed the group’s special collective agreement (CCS). The agreement provides for a €260 wage increase for 2014, which will be extended to employees on Cassa Integrazione (40 percent of the 86,000 Italian workers), and reviews some CCS standards. The signing parties commit themselves to concluding a new group agreement this fall, for 3 years instead of 1, to better meet the company’s requirements. Since 2011, the automaker has been negotiating working conditions outside the framework of the metal industry’s collective agreement.
Economic part. Because of the disagreement over the 2014 wage increase, the parties split in June (see article No. 8457), which was very hard. Since Fiat decided to leave the metal industry’s collective agreement to negotiate working conditions on its own, it was able to renegotiate successive renewals of the group agreement without difficulty until this recent incident.
In the end, a deal was reached on July 11, defining the “una tantum” – the fixed sum that makes up for the time without a conventional increase because of the delayed renewal.
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