Bank employees are to hold a national strike Oct. 31, the first such action in 13 years, in a dispute with the country's banking association over employment contracts. The FABI union, which represents most of the country's 330,000 bank tellers and other employees, has agreed with other union groups to hold a strike in response to the Italian Banking Association's (ABI) decision to annul the sector employment contract nearly a year before it expires. In the September Newsletter the cancellation of the collective agreement in the banking sector was already signalled.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.