ROME (ITALPRESS) – “There are those who, on the renewals of the National Collective Labor Agreements for Public Health and Local Functions 2022-2024, continue to tell half-truths, and those who instead, like the UIL FPL, choose to tell it like it is, with transparency and responsibility. A serious union has only one goal: to defend, protect and strengthen the rights of the workers it represents.” This is what is stated in a note from UIL FPL, which “has not signed downward contracts that penalize those who, with competence and dedication, ensure the delivery of essential public services every day. We have reiterated this several times at the bargaining tables, when renewal hypotheses were proposed to us that did not guarantee decent wages nor the recovery of purchasing power, eroded by inflation that has reached 17 percent in recent years. In this context, we are witnessing a progressive dismantling of the public sector for the benefit of private employers, who are increasingly financed and guided by speculative logics that fall negatively, above all, on the conditions of male and female workers.”
With regard to health care, the UIL FPL “has long been asking the government for structural interventions: adjustment of health care staff salaries to European standards, an extraordinary recruitment plan, better working conditions, safe and healthy environments, and investment in continuing education and professional growth. These are all fundamental elements to enhance the value of current staff and make these professions attractive in the eyes of young people, who are often forced to choose between staying in Italy or seeking better opportunities abroad. Only by allocating adequate resources for the renewal of the CCNL will it be possible to make the health and social-health professions attractive. Only with more investment can we truly save the National Health Service and ensure that the right to health remains public, universal and free.”
Also for the Local Functions sector, which encompasses a plurality of roles and services, “we need concrete resources and adequate professional enhancement tools, starting with a fair increase in the tabular salary. The draft renewal of the 2022-2024 CCNL presented by ARAN did not offer any structural solution for the Local Police, the educational and school sector, administrators, technicians, and social workers. Also missing were the establishment of the new High Qualification Area and dedicated sections for Lawyers, Chambers of Commerce, Small Municipalities, and demographic services. And critical issues remain, such as the freeze on allowances, progressions and ancillary salary.”
“We have asked the government,” the note continues, “for decent wages for all public workers, an extraordinary recruitment plan to fill the serious staff shortage (1,200,000 public employees are missing; 300,000 will retire by 2026, 700,000 by 2030), more funds for Public Health and Local Functions, a freeze on privatization and outsourcing to private employers driven by profit logic, to the detriment of the quality of work and services. Most importantly, we called for the advance of the resources available for the three-year period 2025-2027 on the 2022-2024 contract renewals and the elimination of Article 23 of Legislative Decree 75/2017, which blocks decentralized bargaining. Instead of seeking shared solutions, it continues to threaten the imposition of unilateral acts, attempting to force the approval of agreements not signed by the majority of unions. An unacceptable logic of “take it or leave it” that smacks of blackmail and tramples on the value of confrontation. What is needed instead is a serious, open dialogue that respects all parties involved. At stake is the dignity of public workers, the recognition of their rights, and the quality of services to citizens. The UIL FPL will continue to fight with determination to put back at the center the person, the dignity of public work and its fundamental role as an engine of development and social cohesion for our country.”
-photo Uil Fpl press office.
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