Italy: beginning of the negotiations for the renewal of the national collective convention in the metal sector

of metalworkers’ CCN started on July 24 with a conflict. Of the two separate platforms, one presented by the Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil unions and the other by the Fiom-CGIL, the sector’s employers’ association declared that it preferred the first, nevertheless announcing that there would be no wage increase in 2010 because of the crisis. The Fiom warned that, in the event of a separate agreement between the employers’ association and the two trade unions, it would go to court and organize strikes.