San Marino. Construction contract, trade unions: “No. prevails. Now confrontation is reopened”
“Yesterday afternoon at the Concordia Theater in Borgo Maggiore the assembly of private construction workers, convened by the three trade unions, for the illustration, the debate and the vote on the hypothesis of an agreement for the renewal of the sector contract reached with employer counterparties “.
To give the news, in a joint press release, are CSdL, CDLS and USL, who add: “The managers of the three Construction Federations illustrated the contents of this agreement, with which a single text was created which, for the first time, collects all the contractual regulations concerning the construction sector. The deadline set with the workers followed, and voting operations began at the end of the meeting, in compliance with the provisions of the representative law (Law no. 59/2016) “.
The vote and counting of the ballots, the note reads, “took place with the presence and supervision of the President of the Guarantor Committee for collective bargaining. The result of the trade union referendum saw the preference of no, with 58% of.
The workers considered that this agreement was unbalanced in favor of the companies to the interventions envisaged by the Construction Fund, while the economic reward for the workers was not considered adequate “.
It should be noted, the trade unions continue, “the hypothesis that this is a contractual agreement that was reached last summer, but was only formalized in January, once the consolidated text was defined. In the meantime, the scenario has completely changed: Ukraine’s levels have progressively risen, above all due to the disproportionate increase in energy tariffs and the then unpredictable events linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine ”.
Given the outcome of the referendum, they conclude, “the negotiation will have to be reopened with the trade associations to fully verify what new results can be obtained. The commitment is to meet again in about a month with the same workers, to take stock of the situation, and evaluate how to continue the contractual negotiation “.