Italy -Union federation campaigns around negotiations over savings -September 14, 2011

The CISL FP federation reports on its campaign to get involved with public authorities in measures to improve services and cut out waste. In the wake of the Parliamentary vote on the 2011-2014 budget law, that includes among other provisions the threat of another freeze of national collective agreements in the public sector until 2014, CISL FP has intensified actions in order to obtain a commitment from public authorities to involve workers and their representatives in a comprehensive process to tackle spending inefficiencies, optimize work organization to improve service management and delivery, and so retrieve money that can be redistributed to public workers through second-level bargaining.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/437

Italian: http://www.fp.cisl.it/

 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.