renewed agreement for 4500 employees. Participation, salary, welfare, smart working and health and safety are at the center – Italian Metalworkers Federation

Press release

Statement by the FIM CISL National General Secretary Ferdinando Uliano, of the FIM National Secretary Valerio D’Alò and the FIM national coordinator of the Fim Cisl railway sector Giuseppe De Francesco

Hitachi Rail STS: renewed agreement for 4500 employees. Participation, welfare wages, smart working and health and safety are at the center

Two years after the agreement which perfected the integration between the Hitachi vehicles and. STS, the supplementary agreement for the approximately 4,500 Hitachi employees employed in the 6 factories present in Italy was signed today in Naples.

The agreement reached is highly innovative and recognizes the fundamental contribution given by workers

to Hitachi’s growth in the global market both in the construction and maintenance of railway vehicles, both in signaling and in the creation of integrated systems.

The contractual renewal improves many aspects of the life of Hitachi workers by aiming to innovate the sustainability of work, through the improvement of company welfare and the review of the smart working agreement. The value of the performance bonus was also increased by €750 to the 130% parameter for blue-collar staff and for the first time, a non-absorbable collective superminimum of €600 per year was established for those with equal length of service 22 years or more, and a superminimum of €390 per year for those with a length of service of 5 years or more.

Greater involvement of RSUs and RLSs in company production units, increasing the usability of RLSs to strengthen oversight of health and safety issues. Important improvements on the use of continuous professional training, on welfare, with an additional payment of €100 for all employees, smart working making the current use flexible within the quarter giving workers with particular fragilities the possibility of benefiting from further days. Increases for workers’ shifts have also been improved.

“The agreement reached represents an important result that recognizes a system of industrial relations now structured within the Hitachi group – comment – ​​the General Secretary of the Fim Cisl Ferdinando Uliano, the National Secretary Valerio D’Alò and the national coordinator of the railway sector Giuseppe De Francesco, on the sidelines of the signing of the agreement reached today in Naples with the Group.

The agreement – ​​they continue – represents an excellent result resulting from the commitment of the entire negotiating delegation, in particular the delegates of the FIM, as it was achieved in a difficult global context and on the eve of the opening of negotiations for the renewal of the national contract for metalworkers. Having brought home this important agreement for all the workers of the Hitachi group, demonstrates the value and proximity of bargaining in responding to and improving the protection of workers from income, to all those aspects of people’s lives at work, recognizing their value and sustainability . The attention paid – in the agreement – to the change taking place in work, dedicating a separate chapter to it, in particular on the repercussions introduced by digital and green innovation and the respective changes it triggers in the labor market, brings out the extreme attention paid to the agreement in the management of ongoing transitions in work and the recognition of the new needs of workers, which as Fim, we have been putting forward in negotiations for some time – conclude the three.

With the agreement reached today, the Hitachi Group confirms itself as a company attentive to industrial relations capable of demonstrating that together, by putting participation, RSU, Union and company at the centre, competitiveness can be achieved and at the same time the improvement of the lives and wages of its employees. workers”.

Rome, 22 April 2024 FIM CISL National Press Office