Italy: health and safety at the heart of second-level negotiations in the metal sector

On the eve of the beginning of second-level negotiations (see our article No. 080256), the Cgil's metallurgy section, the Fiom, wants to include in the negotiations with medium and big sized businesses a claim platform regarding occupational safety. (Ref. 080308)
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“For several years now, union power has been decreasing in factories: this step backward is characterized by repeated serious and deadly accidents in metal industries. This is why we must firmly revive our conventional initiative on the workplace, with special attention to defending health and fighting against working environments’ noxiousness and danger” said Gianni Rinaldino, Fiom general secretary, when he concluded the second RLS national meeting in Turin on April 8. Several hundreds of RLS

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