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27 September 2019The tollbooths and employees of the motorway companies return to cross their arms on 13 and 14 October with a new national strike after those made during the exodus and the summer counter-exodus. To determine the strike, the modalities of which still need to be defined, was a new rupture of the negotiation for the renewal of the national labor contract which instead seemed to have started a positive solution.

Break of negotiations
The negotiations, the trade unions report, were interrupted by the refusal of some of the concessionary companies to agree with the workers' representatives the so-called "social clause". The dealerships represented by the Acap-Fise association would leave the table, including the Gavio group companies and the Northeast highways (Bre.Be.Mi), while the Autostrade per l'Italia group was willing to continue the dialogue.

The social clause
It is a tool, wanted by the unions, to protect employment and wages in the event that a new dealer takes over. A topic that is very much felt when the state renews various concessions. Renewals that will immediately involve around 4 thousand employees. The provision guarantees the employee the continuity of his employment contract maintaining seniority, salary level and guarantees of art. 18 for those hired before the jobs act. Furthermore, if approved and included in the national collective bargaining agreement, it would also prevent "salary-based employment levels" from becoming the subject of negotiations with the government when the concession is renewed.

The fears of the unions
"The social clause represents an indispensable and fundamental factor for guaranteeing and protecting all employees in the sector in order to guarantee continuity of employment, the application of the collective labor agreement, the maintenance of all economic and regulatory treatments, at a time of great change that affects the entire range of motorway concessions ", said the joint note of the trade unions. The employees immediately involved are a quarter of the total total of the sector to which are added those involved in probable further reorganizations of the concessions starting from the faded revocation of Autostrade per l'Italia.