1,810 euros in February – Corriere.it

Paycheck richer for Marelli’s blue overalls. Not without controversy. The employees of the auto components company sold by Stellantis to the US Kkr fund will receive an average gross bonus for 2022 of 1,810 euros; the prize is the result of the old agreement signed in March 2019 by Fim, Uil, Ugl, Fismic and Aqcfr with the former Fiat. Fiom, which did not sign the agreement, now reiterates the need to “guarantee the prize to everyone”. In fact, Marelli has canceled the specific employment contract (Ccsl) and this year he will return to the national collective agreement, the one they ratify with Federmeccanica. Adopted in 2012, but already strongly desired in 2010 by the former CEO Sergio Marchionne to give substance to a sector contract, the car one, the Ccsl led the then FCA to leave Confindustria and to cut off the metalworkers of the CGIL for a long time .

Highest prize

The 1,810 euros disbursed – explain the trade unions – will be subject to the preferential taxation of 5% envisaged for variable bonuses and therefore, on an individual voluntary basis, may be received in whole or in part in the form of company welfare, provided that the option is indicated by 10 February. In this case the company will add a value equal to 10%. The company management, in response to a trade union request, also said that it will evaluate any cases of establishments that present particular criticalities for the redundancy fund in relation to the accrual accrual. “Moreover, the premium has risen compared to last year’s 1,600 euros because it is linked to the increase in the basic wage established in the contract and because the workers have managed to make more efficiency recoveries in the plants”, explains the Uilm national secretary, Gianluca Ficco .

The passage and the Fiom

“In perspective, the problem of the transition from the former Fiat CCSL to the national one arises – adds Ficco -, we have already made a sort of preliminary agreement on harmonization which provides, with the transition, that the old – higher – seniority increases are preserved in the new contract. Uilm’s words are echoed by Simone Marinelli, automotive coordinator for the national Fiom: «Production stops due to lack of supplies and recourse to social safety nets could negatively affect the amounts that will actually be paid to workers. It will therefore be necessary to open a discussion to identify solutions to recognize decent amounts for all the workers in the group”.

The problems after the assignment and the debt

“The ongoing negotiation for the transition to the Metalworkers National Collective Labor Agreement – continues Marinelli – will have to identify a new reward system that truly recognizes the commitment made by male and female workers without penalty mechanisms”. The unions are also worried about the production trend of Marelli, in particular for the contracts with the Stellantis galaxy «and therefore we will ask for more explanations on the industrial and commercial prospects». Marelli was mainly affected by the shortage of microchips. Marelli in Italy has 11 plants and about 7,500 employees. After its transfer from the then FCA to Calsonic Kansey (owned by Kkr) for over 5 billion, problems arose: the discovery of a liability of 8.67 billion dollars which led it to ask Japan – headquarters of Calsonic – the initiation of a voluntary debt resolution practice. From there on, layoffs in fits and starts between Tolmezzo, Bari, Melfi and Sulmona and 550 redundancies among employees, criticality then managed with voluntary exoduses and slides.