Italy: driven by Fiat, employers want to quicken the “modernization” of industrial relations

Fiat’s boosting the “modernization” of Italian industrial relations is also shaking employers up.  Tomorrow and on Wednesday, Confindustria will meet with its management and then its steering committee.  Today, Federmeccanica (employers) and the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil, Fismic and UGL, the trade unions that signed the separate agreement for the renewal of the 2009 metal collective agreement, are reopening talks for the “automotive contract” (see our dispatch No.  100608), requested by Fiat as a sine qua non to re-join Confindustria.  Federmeccanica should present the offer announced after its steering committee meeting on January 19th.
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ommittee. Today, Federmeccanica (employers) and the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil, Fismic and UGL, the trade unions that signed the separate agreement for the renewal of the 2009 metal collective agreement, are reopening talks for the “automotive contract” (see our dispatch No. 100608), requested by Fiat as a sine qua non to re-join Confindustria. Federmeccanica should present the offer announced after its steering committee meeting on January 19th.

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