On October 29, Apple signed its first company agreement with the Filcams-CGIL, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs-Uil unions for the approximately 1,300 workers of its 14 Apples Stores in Italy. Signed for 3 years, this agreement regulates flexibility and work on Sunday and improves working conditions compared with the national collective agreement. Sandro Pagaria, signing party to the agreement and national representative for Apple relations at the Filcams-CGIL, explains its key points to Planet Labor. (Ref. 130681)
“Trade being one of the sectors most badly hit by the crisis, each day we receive notices of termination of company agreements from large companies. So the deal we signed with Apple is twice amazing, a) because it’s the first company agreement for the American giant in Italy, and b) because it improves working conditions instead of weakening them,” Sandro Pagaria, national representative for Apple relations at the Filcams-CGIL, told Planet Labor. He pointed out that this category of workers is “already doing quite well, as their wages are higher than the average in the industry.” Filcams is the only union with union representation bodies elected by workers in Italian Apple Stores, so it was the only one to negotiate this agreement.
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