Dear Director, after the reform of the Armed Forces and the reorganization of careers, I am convinced that what will affect the new trade union rights in the military world is the logical consequence of a path that is renewing the sector.
I interpret the ruling of the Constitutional Court as the opportunity to express rights that will complete the unsolvable union that binds the staff to the top, already united in achieving the same goal.
The opportunity presented will have to gather the best experiences and reflect the critical issues found to turn them to support an instrument that serves to improve the efficiency of the defense and security sector.
On the other hand, it is in things that military trade union associations will become an integral part of the military system.
I would like to ask for some solicitations to encourage the debate that must accompany the reform, so that the delicate passage is lived in every place to support what Parliament will have to do.
I think that the military union associations can be formed by soldiers on duty and on leave and, why not, they can be representative of interests even in multiple military administrations. On the contrary, I am convinced that direct trade union representation must be expressed by bodies formed by servicemen elected by servicemen.
Specifically: a trade union expresses its contents and offers its own contribution within a military administration through the vote that determines the composition of the trade unions which are in effect social partners.
To promote union relations, the trade union system must be based on two pillars: the national one and the local one, or on a regional basis.
The trade unions must be chaired by a military elected by the delegates with a voting system that favors the broader internal consensus and the sharing of objectives.
To encourage gender participation, it will serve to express gender preference.
To avoid the fragmentation of trade union representation (re-examination of the experience lived after the law 121/1981) as well as the real collective representation of interests, the delegates must be chosen from lists and a threshold must be set below which no seats will be awarded.
Delegates at national level must be able to carry out their mandate exclusively, without temporal limitation and without being evaluated.
The competences are wide and, nevertheless, some subjects must in any case be excluded - one could, for example, only formulate non-binding opinions on the matter - due to the fact that, given the hierarchical-pyramidal structure, the responsibility for the efficiency of the instrument and the implementation of the assigned programs is, in any case, attributed to the top management.
I conclude with a conviction: in fact, the recognition of the responsibility of the "social partners" must be attributed to trade union organizations, both with provisions that determine the cultural construction of the path and with the definition of programmatic responsibilities and exclusive competences in order to regularize, in a correct and non-bureaucratic way, the trade union-type relations framework that will arise between the various subjects.
Sen. Vincenzo D'Arienzo
