“To bring answers to the issues of recognition and protection of new professional fields, traditional unions have to be able to make major changes to its internal structure, operating system and even typical tools and language. With SindicatoNetworkers.it, we’re trying to meet this challenge” explained Uiltucs general secretary Brunetto Boco. His meeting with Filippo di Nardo, consultant in digital communication and expert in the new economy’s labor market, who for a few years has been working on the creation of an online union “particularly inspired” from the Wash tech American union, was decisive. Di Nardo, now the young union’s “national coordinator,” told Planet Labor that this project, backed up by M. Boco, met “the needs for individual protection of the sector’s professionals, hardly unionized, who need an active online union able to provide innovative answers to the needs for individual protection, and to speak the language of digital natives.”
A pioneer in Italy, SindicatoNetworkers.it was officially created in October 2011 within the Uiltucs, the Uil’s federation of tourism, trade and services, and will mostly operate online. The aim is to renew union representation to better defend professionals in information and communication technologies (ICTs), thus becoming “the” reference union for this category of professionals, where unionization is low.
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