The legacy of Marco Biagi conformism over old and new - Article Dear Editor, this evening in Bologna, at eight-five, many people of diverse ideas come together in front of the bike path porch Valdonica 14, Railway Station: is the path that Mark did for the last time May 19, 2002. Meanwhile, in Modena, to grow its contribution to the progress of work culture, met for three days, scholars around the world and all the guidelines, as every year, the initiative of the Fondazione Marco Biagi. Because this same serenity in reviving his legacy can not succeed in the political and trade union? The only answer I can give is this: on the political union as on the eight years were not enough to overcome the deadly game of systemic opposing faction that broke when the Biagi law was proposed and then passed. Then the center-right majority introduced her - falsely, as the law that would make the Italian labor market "as free and fluid of Europe" and the opposition did not seem real to take the majority in the word, demonizing the law as the "unbridled liberalization, the dismantling of the protections of labor.
Since at least on this point the majority and the opposition had agreed broadly, public opinion was convinced that things were so. Save a little later to see that the law had not changed even a comma of the discipline of regular-time employment indefinite and did not create any form of "uncertain employment" that did not exist before: it had merely recognize and regulate more strictly than before, labor relations have long been marginalized in the process of growing popularity. During the term prodiana, Secretary of Labor Damiano widely used precisely the Biagi law to curb abuses by the independent contractor. Nevertheless, the majority of the time he tried desperately for something to repeal that law, without finding it, and in the end, disregarding the agreement of July 23, 2007 interconfederal signed by all unions and employers' associations, for it was intolerable that the law abhorred were left intact , lifted the provision of staff leasing, or a form of work organization that provides a stable, indefinitely, with the application of Article 18 of the Statute. Of course, the phenomenon of insecurity was not tarnished in any way. Coll'individuare Biagi law in one of the main causes of that phenomenon, the old left has blatantly wrong target.
Yet in its documents still returns the bolsa invariably claim that the ritual hated law is repealed (except not to call her by her name because "Marco Biagi was too decent person": his detractors always point to as the "law 30 "). The partisan demonization by the left has on a silver plate to the center the opportunity to do Giuslavoristi Bolognese its flag. Never mind that the center has so far forgot the whole part of his project on social safety nets, or that it dramatically filed with the statements of Ministers Tremonti and Sacconi, Marco Biagi, the entire speech on the need to overcome the dualism of our labor market, by aligning our discipline of redundancy for the new working relationships with the best European models. What matters is that you can indicate which inspires everything the government proposes and imposes on the job. As was the case recently with the new provision in the Arbitration labor disputes (so poorly written that the day after its approval CISL, UIL, UGL, Confindustria and Confcommercio rushed to warn that its use should be severely bounded and corrected through collective bargaining).
Marco, of course, was a champion of the revival of the arbitration, but attributing the authorship of this mess due to technical incompetence, of which he has no responsibility, certainly does not honor his memory. It does not help to svelenire the debate on his legacy. So clearly, the great merit of Marco Biagi has been the ability to look at our industrial relations system with an eye for international comparisons deeply conformist and free from old and new. It is too much to ask that the eighth anniversary of his assassination we stop all at least a day to try to recover the freedom and openness of horizons?
Author: Pietro Ichino
Source: Corriere.it of March 19, 2009