After long negotiations, on 13 May the Joint Committee for the textile industry, in which the unions and the Fedustria employers’ federation are represented, accepted the mediation proposal of the Committee’s chairwoman for a set of new collective agreements for blue-collar workers. It includes a wage increase of 0.25% by 1 September 2012. The wage indexation system, earlier attacked by the employers’ delegation, will remain, and internal flexibility will not be expanded. Training efforts in the sector will be intensified. The employers’ side and the unions shared their lack of enthusiasm for the final outcomes, the unions in particular as the wage rise is lower than the 0.3% hike laid down a few months earlier in the IPA, the national framework agreement for the private sector.
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