Negotiations over this new company agreement had started following significant mobilization in the summer due to the unilateral denunciation of the Swedish company’s previous agreement. According to the unions, the new text to be put to a vote by the 6,000 workers across the Swedish multinational’s 21 Italian shops “restores the major elements” of the previous agreement. In addition it introduces new rights over variable pay and managing working time.
The document signed by the signatory unions Fisascat-Cisl, Filcams-CGIL, and Uiltucs, “retrieves the main body of rights and protection” that had been under threat by the unilateral denunciation of the previous agreement in May 2015. The unions had estimated that the drop in pay as a result of the abolition of a company bonus plus sharp reductions in pay rates for public holiday work would result in losses of up to €2,000 per worker per year. The result was an historic mobilization with a well-
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