Camonica Valley museums closed. Workers reject contract renewal

Val Camonica sitesclosed to the public because external staff workers refuse to renew their contracts under the new conditions, which are deemed to be pejorative. It happens at the Naquane Rock Engravings National Park in Capo di Ponte and the National Archaeological Museum in Cividate Camuno , which closed their doors yesterday and today. In fact, on November 30, the contracts of the external security and reception staff expired: the two sites in Val Camonica are eleven in number, employees of cooperatives to which the ministry, through a contract, entrusts the relevant service, without which the museums cannot open.

The employees are waiting for a new contract: in the ’last change of contract, the cooperative that won it and that was supposed to hire the employees in question since December, did not start the necessary procedures in time, CGIL and CISL unions point out. “Despite the fact that both the outgoing company and the winning company, as well as the Lombardy Regional Museums Directorate, had known for some time about the contract change taking place,” the two unions inform in a note, “only at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 were the unions called for negotiations with the winning company. Only at 6:30 p.m. on the same day were the workers contacted by the company’s representative to sign the labor contracts, among other things at a shopping center parking lot. After waiting for two hours to no avail, with no one showing up, the workers went home without a contract, which was emailed at 9:15 p.m. with a request from the company to sign it by early the next morning. The labor contract had numerous controversial points, including a base hourly wage that was even worse than the previous contract’s national collective bargaining agreement, offset downward by super minimums.”

The contract proposal, we learn, called for a move to 5 euros gross per hour from the current 6. The workers have been used for six years for the openings of the National Museums of the Camonica Valley, with labor contracts that provide wages deemed by the unions “inadequate or, worse, unacceptable.”

Right now union representatives are engaged in an attempt to try to make the contract conditions acceptable. Given the situation, workers will only sign contracts and take service when an agreement is reached that is deemed at least acceptable.

Pictured is a room at the National Archaeological Museum in Cividate Camuno.

Camonica Valley museums closed. Workers reject contract renewal

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