Work, Bonomi-Landini clash over wages

Long-distance questioning and response between the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi and the leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini on the subject of wage increases which, according to the first, must be linked to the harmonized price index (IPCA), on the contrary, for Landini a revision of the ‘Ipca that ignores the’ dear energy ‘. And so continues the quarrel triggered for days and on which the leader of Uil Pierpaolo Bombardieri has raised the bar, threatening the cancellation of the Pact for the Factory. Conflict is “the last thing Italy needs today” said Bonomi in an interview with ‘Il Corriere della Sera’ explaining on the merits that it is not true that the Ipca index excludes prices of imported energy goods. “It is not so. The price of energy goods is there, but – explained Bonom – it is spread over time to avoid sudden changes like the current one make the index swing. If you want to raise wages immediately, the road is contracted. of productivity in each firm, additional to the national contract “. Landini’s reply, who did not miss the opportunity to fight back from the stage of the CGIL organizational assembly in Rimini, was dry. “Faced with the problem of national contracts and wage growth and rising inflation, he replies by saying no, nothing must be changed, because the only place where wages must increase with productivity is where bargaining takes place. This is something that is not acceptable “Landini said in the conclusions of the assembly. “In a country with many small and medium-sized enterprises, where for the majority of workers there is no company bargaining, – remarked Landini – if it is not the national contracts that return to have a wage authority and to pose the problem of increasing the real value of wages, this means accepting planning and reducing wages “. Furthermore, Landini added in criticizing Bonomi who spoke of “competitive reformism”: “Reforms must not be competitive but redistributive … – said the CGIL leader – competitive for whom? It is not that there is a lack of competitiveness, there is some too much in the way of work “.