Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions sign agreement reached with Confindustria on representativeness and company agreements

“We confirmed that negotiation is the province of the parties’ autonomy, not of the government.” CGIL leader Susanna Camusso summed up the outcome of yesterday morning’s meeting at the headquarters of the employers’ organization for the ratification of the agreement of June 28th on union representativeness and the scope of company agreements (see our dispatch No.  110443) signed by unions and employers.  Camusso got them to “promise they would apply the agreement of June 28th, a sine qua non for its organization to ratify the interconfederal agreement – which was put into question after the adoption of Article 8 in the government’s last austerity program (see our dispatch No.  110545), which provides that local agreements can derogate from national collective agreements and laws.
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href=”/?p=34081″>see our dispatch No. 110443) signed by unions and employers. Camusso got them to “promise they would apply the agreement of June 28th, a sine qua non for its organization to ratify the interconfederal agreement – which was put into question after the adoption of Article 8 in the government’s last austerity program (see our dispatch No. 110545), which provides that local agreements can derogate from national collective agreements and laws.

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