Italy: against Nokia Siemens Network’s restructuring plan, strikes follow strikes in the group’s facilities

Following last month's mobilizations to stop the German-Finnish multinational company's restructuring plan which plans layoffs and shutdowns in the country, the three main metalworkers' unions proclaims a unitary strike with a national demonstration in Rome on July 6. (Ref. 070569)
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Agitation continues in all of Nokia Siemens Network’s Italian sites, after the announcement of the restructuring plan, which plans to dismiss 9.000 workers in three years, including 500 in Italy. Not withstanding the agreement signed on December 25, 2006 with the Minister of Economic Development, in which Siemens guaranteed to maintain the entire value chain (research and development, services, commercialization and production”) in Italy after the fusion, Nokia said on May 18, 2007 that it want

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