After bargaining for 8 months to renew the group’s collective agreement, which covers about 86,000 workers (see article No. 130166), the unions that signed the agreement – Fim, Uilm, Fismic, UGL and AQCF – left the bargaining table on June 10, saying that the wage increase proposed by the carmaker was “unacceptable.” The unions announced that they were going to freeze overtime and flexibility. It is the first disagreement between Fiat and the “yes unions” – as the Fiom-CGIL puts it, the only organization that didn’t sign the collective agreements reforming the production and industrial relations system, which has since been left out of union relations in the group. However, opposing Fiat’s management doesn’t mean that these unions are standing united with the Fiom.
The disagreement notably comes from the amount of the “una tantum” lump sum making up for the time without a conventional increase because the renewal was delayed. Both parties tried to reach a compromise, in vain. Fiat raised its offer from €200 to €250 and unions lowered their claim from €390 down to €300. Having left Confindustria, Fiat has directly negotiated its own national collective agreement since 2012 (see article No. 130166), which was signed without the Fiom-CGIL, which has sinc
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