PEACE IS UNION BUSINESS! SAY NO TO NATO!

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The first negotiation meeting at CP took place today, at which management presented two proposals, both very low.

While in the other public companies in the sector the meetings have been going on for a long time, at CP they started late, at the end of the first quarter, with the following options for distributing a small cake:

Proposal 1

a. A €45 increase in salaries up to €2,631.62;

b. 1.8% increase for salaries of €2,631.62 or more.

Proposal 2

a. Increase the value of the Meal Allowance to €10.20 (+1€/day or average + €22/month).

If paid by meal card → no deductions.

If paid in cash → subject to discount from €6/day (by reference to the amount paid in the civil service).

b. Increase in the salary scale:

• An increase of 34€ in salaries up to 2,631.62€;
  
• 1.7% increase for salaries of €2,631.62 or more.
  

Once again, the government/administration want to limit negotiations by setting themselves a sum, once again small, and then putting the workers' organizations in charge of dividing “the evil among the villages”.

On the other hand, in this negotiation process the administration wants to ignore the work done following the agreement of July 2024, to follow up on the final report on the new salary scales, on which all parties agreed, in order to put to the government the need for an extraordinary salary increase, based on restoring the differences of the SMN - National Minimum Wage, existing in 2018, which would give salary increases per worker much higher than those now presented.

The previous administration, after approving the work carried out, kept it “in the drawer” and didn't follow up on it, and the current administration claims it still wants to see the impacts.

We told the meeting today that the negotiating process must take into account the work done before and that it must be brought to the table to be considered as a whole.

Next meeting on April 9th at 10:30am.