Schlein, Conte, Landini: the round table on the minimum wage

“Our minimum wage proposal strengthens collective bargaining.” To say it is Elly Schlein who, on the sidelines of the conference ‘Inflation and wages: which policies’, organized by the University of Roma Tre, has once again launched its appeal to the government Melons to approve the centre-left’s bill that establishes the minimum wage threshold for employees at 9 euros per hour.

A provision announced in recent days and also supported by Joseph Conte And Charles Calendabut not from Matthew Renzi. And on which also the secretary of the Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, confirms: “The minimum wage is needed in this country. There are three million workers who are below the threshold of nine euros an hour. Most of the contracts signed by CGIL, CISL and UIL are above that threshold”. 5S leader Conte adds: “Meloni doesn’t believe in the minimum wage by law? It’s understandable, he earns allowances that amount to 30 times as much. I want to hope that the prime minister, who has made work even more precarious and has dismantled the basic income, realizes that she is creating social discomfort and in other countries we have seen what they entail.

For Schlein “inflation continues to bite very hard at the ankles of Italian families, one more reason for the government to consider and approve the unitary proposal of the oppositions”, clarified the secretary of the Democratic Party. Who then explained: “The minimum wage means above all strengthening collective bargaining because it enforces for all male and female workers in a sector the total wage envisaged by the comparatively more representative contract, but it also means identifying a threshold below which go down and not even bargaining can go down”. Then Schlein added: “We can’t wait any longer, there are pockets of poor work that must be tackled with concrete measures, especially today that inflation is so high”.

According to the dem secretary “the one on the minimum wage is a proposal made together with the other oppositions, strong and innovative with roots in article 36 of the Constitution. It is a proposal which, moreover, does not apply only to employees but also to parasubordinates for the self-employed, it is all-round to fight against poor work”. Then she went back to talking about the Work decree, explaining that it is necessary to fight against precariousness “which the government has chosen to increase with the Work decree which extends the use of fixed-term contracts and makes workers more blackmailable in this “.

Bombardieri: “The minimum wage in this country is needed”

The position of the UIL secretary Pierpaolo Bombardieri is also clear, according to which the “minimum wage is needed in this country”. His words contrast with those of the CISL leader Bar as possible as possible dumping salary caused by the measure. “Purchasing power has hit employees and retirees. – observed Bombardieri – We need to do more. We must intervene on the tax wedge, helping the renewal of contracts, reducing taxes on second-level bargaining. We are waiting to understand what the government will want to do”.

Forza Italia’s no

After the no from the government, which arrived in recent days through the words of the Minister of Labor Calderone, now however FI is also taking sides against the proposal from the centre-left. “For Forza Italia, but also for important unions such as the Cisl, the right path is to make union bargaining even more qualitative, which in Italy already covers 90% of contracts, the first country in Europe”, she says to Morning 5 the blue group leader in the Chamber Paolo Barelli. “The minimum income – he continues – would even involve the risk, for workers who today, thanks to bargaining, receive more than 9 euros an hour, of seeing their current wages reduced”. Instead, he concludes, FI’s proposal is “that for those contracts outside the negotiation the application of the average value of the minimum wage in force in the national contracts of the major trade unions for the type of work must be envisaged”.