Italy: formal internal opposition building up within the CGIL

Analysis. For the founders, the Fiom’s “clear” position on the restructuring of Fiat’s Pomigliano site (see our dispatch No. 100480 on the opposition of the plan providing a drawback on social benefits in return for maintained jobs) lists the track to follow. They are accusing the CGIL of “confirming its preference for tactical adjustments.” From then on, in the perspective of a fall which foretells to be “particularly tough” with the toughening of the government and the Confindustria’s policies, supported by the Cisl and Uil, aimed to “deeply amend” the union’s role and workers’ rights, the CGIL’s answer “must be much stronger and more incisive, both regarding the analysis and the proposals, than it has been so far,” the founders repeated.
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jobs) lists the track to follow. They are accusing the CGIL of “confirming its preference for tactical adjustments.” From then on, in the perspective of a fall which foretells to be “particularly tough” with the toughening of the government and the Confindustria’s policies, supported by the Cisl and Uil, aimed to “deeply amend” the union’s role and workers’ rights, the CGIL’s answer “must be much stronger and more incisive, both regarding the analysis and the proposals, than it has been so far,”

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