A three-year national collective agreement, more weight to the company level and a seven-month "union peace" during the bargaining for the renewal: these are the main elements of the reform of the conventional system which the employers' organization presented to the three trade union organization on September 12, 2008, as a response to the project they presented four months ago (see our dispatch No. 080377). Although the CISL and UIL gave a positive welcome to the proposal, a part of the CGIL's executive board requested a break in the negotiations, and the whole confederation criticized the entire document. (Ref. 080687)
This agreement “should lead to a general overhaul of union relations, going from conflicting and opposition logic (…) to a logic of sharing goals.” This is how Emma Marcegaglia presented, on September 12, the employers’ project for the reform of the conventional system which, if it is adopted, will be tried out during the next four years. She added that the two bargaining levels – local and national – would remain, but with a stronger role for second-level bargaining, notably the company agreem
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