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The reasons for the 57.000 workers' strike lie in the corporate decision to proceed with the assignment of the HR Shared Service Center (HR SSC) to a Newco, which is not part of the Unicredit Group and which is controlled by a non-bank, as the first measure of a wider project of outsourcing of activities and workers, which comes just on the eve of the presentation of the new Industrial Plan, whose inspiring lines are presently unknown. The unions consider this measure absolutely unacceptable from the point of view of the industrial perspectives, which appear uncertain and nebulous, as well as from the contractual point of view. It is a breach of the occupational warranties and the National Agreement.



They are also worried about growing pressure and concern of the workers of the branch network due to continuous reorganizations, commercial pressures, shortage of manpower and zero setting of the grading rules; the extremely negative climate has produced a drastic deterioration of the general living and working conditions and the vilification of professionalism and the existing competences.



In addition, the workers of UCBP, UGIS and URE are facing a profound reorganization which will lead to the companies’ merger into a newly founded company, named UBIS, in which, per manifest will of the Group, all the current Additional Agreements will be nullified.



The trade union organizations reaffirm that the outsourcing of the HR SSC and the zero setting of the grading rules represent a breach of the relationship with the workers, the methods of corporate problem solving and the trade union relations. The breach is so much the worse considering the difficulties which the Group is facing in the global economic crisis and which would suggest a diametrically opposed corporate attitude.