Popular own-initiative bill. As of January 2010, the Fiom will start, in factories and regions, collecting the 50,000 signatures it needs to present its popular own-initiative bill for union democracy to Parliament. Fiom national secretary Maurizio Landini explained that the purpose of this bill was to “make union democracy actually practicable, extending the right to elect union representatives to all workplaces” with “certified criteria to measure union organizations’ representativeness.” The bill provides, among others, for: 1/ every three years, elections for Unitary Trade Union Representation Structures (RSUs) with a “free and secret” ballot” based on a “pure” representation system instead of the current system which provides that one third of representatives is appointed by the union organizations recognized as representative; 2/ a certification based on “the percentage of votes in RSUs and the number of members paying regular union contributions” instead of unions’ “auto-certification” on the number of their members; 3/ unions representing at least 40% of the workers concerned signing national collective agreements; 4/ a referendum for all workers, not only those affiliated with the signatory organizations, to validate national and company collective agreements and any amendment to framework agreements on the conventional system.
mber of members paying regular union contributions” instead of unions’ “auto-certification” on the number of their members; 3/ unions representing at least 40% of the workers concerned signing national collective agreements; 4/ a referendum for all workers, not only those affiliated with the signatory organizations, to validate national and company collective agreements and any amendment to framework agreements on the conventional system.
The fight against the separate metal agreement continues.
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