Italy: a study on Italian metalworkers’ working conditions

Almost 100.000 workers and employees from the metallurgy sector took part in the national study ordered by the Fiom. The results, recently published, show a "deep malaise" among Italian metalworkers. This malaise is not simply economic – blue-collar workers earn in average 1.170 euro a month and white-collar workers earn 1.370 euro – since 40% of the people surveyed consider their work jeopardizes their health. (Ref. 080191)
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“A study almost unique because of its size and the details of its analysis”. This is how the Fiom presented, on February 29 in Turin, the results of its study, the most important in decades on working and living conditions in the Italian metal (almost 2 million employees). All of the Fiom’s structures were involved in data gathering throughout workplaces. 96.607 employees – 22% of women – almost a half of which (44.6%) do not belong to the trade union – answered a questionnaire with 118 questio

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