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In an article published in the business newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore on 13 November 2020, the General Secretary of the FABI trade union, Lando Maria Sileoni (photo), called on the banking sector employers' association ABI to intervene against the joint declaration of the European works council and the management of UniCredit. FABI is the largest union in the Italian finance sector, with almost 100,000 members, and is affiliated to UNI, the European Federation of Services Unions, but competes with the three major Italian confederations. The criticism highlights a fundamental conflict over the role of unions on the one hand and European works councils on the other.
According to Lando Maria Sileoni, UniCredit is only allowed to negotiate working conditions for Italy with the Italian trade unions and no one else. "The European Works Council can neither negotiate nor elaborate or conclude framework agreements". The joint declaration violates Italian Labour Law and the national sectoral collective agreement. In Italy, collective bargaining is regulated by the social partners themselves in a nationwide agreement (see report in EWC News 3/2018). Sileoni fears that remote working in subsidiaries will lead to precarious working conditions and the possibility to sell banking products online. Such "wild" forms of remote working at UniCredit would not only lead to further job losses, but automatically to the loss of acquired rights.
Link to the article: https://www.landosileoni.it/2020/11/13/smart-working-sileoni-contrasta-unicredit-no-a-linee-guida-decise-in-europa/
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