Italy: employers from the metallurgy sector answer to the union platform for a renewal of the sector’s national convention

Encourage flexicurity and improve productivity before increasing wages. These are the words of the metallurgy sector's employers federation – Federmeccanica – to unions' unitary platform to renegotiate the national branch collective convention (see our dispatch n° 070500) will begin on June 20. (Ref. 070519)
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“A costly and complex platform which overturns the parameters of the July 23, 1993 Protocol and contrasts with companies’ competitiveness demands;” it is in these terms that Massimo Calearo, president of the metallurgy emplyers federation Federmeccanica talked about unions’ unitary platform (see our dispatch # 070500) during the organization’s general assembly, which took place on June 8 in Florence.

Wage demands. In 2006, even if the metallurgy industry play an important role in the resurgence

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