Messina wants to share the profits with the employees and widens the gap with the Abi

After the short week, the counselor Intesa Sanpaolo delegate, Carlo Messina, returns to the bank contract saying he is more than in favor of granting the salary increase and launching the proposal for employee profit sharing. Words that risk consolidating the distances from the ABI, the banking association, already widened at the beginning of the year when Intesa decided to sit down at the table with the unions for the renewal of the contract independently. Speaking at the Fabi congress which took place yesterday in Rome, on a day marked by the death of Silvio Berlusconi, Messina said he considered it “unacceptable” not to give workers sizeable raises and therefore opened up to the requests of the unions (435 euros per month), but above all surprised the audience with the idea of ​​making it possible for workers to share in profits as an additional form of remuneration. “It is a hypothesis that I would welcome very much,” he said, thus shuffling the papers of the congress even though he clarified that he had asked for an internal check on the feasibility. The interesting aspect is represented by the reasons behind the decision to willingly accept the salary increase. In summary, the number one of the largest Italian bank said that with all the profits that Intesa makes, he won’t start negotiating an increase of 400 euros. Words that, regardless of how the negotiation on the renewal of the contract will evolve, are destined to have weight for the whole category considering that thehe profitability for credit institutions is growing sharply, favored by the increase in ECB interest rates and in the face of this, the cost of money for households and businesses has become more expensive. “With a net profit of 7 billion euros, I don’t have the courage to look people in the face and say I’m going to negotiate this aspect,” said the banker. The applause ensued, of course, in front of a position destined to leave its mark on the country’s banking landscape and which opens up more than one reflection.