Italy - Unions take different line over agreement with government - February 14, 2011

The FP-CISL, Uilpa and UIL FPL public service federations have signed an agreement with the government which they claim will protect workers’ pay at levels agreed for 2010 and that will also give the unions a role in negotiating reforms at the workplace. The FP-CGIL public service federation has refused to sign the accord which it argues will undermine the system of collective bargaining in the public sector. This federation is planning strike action for 25 March.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/404

Italian: http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/16770;
http://www.fp.cisl.it/intesapubblicoimpiego/

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.