The conflict between Fiat and the CGIL’s metalworkers’ union (Fiom) had an impact at several levels. Trying to jostle social relations practices, the carmaker also started a legal battle, which ruled that the provision granting union representation only to unions that sign collective agreements was contrary to the constitution. The conflict went on before the ILO, whose Committee on Freedom of Association recently suggested that the Italian government reform this provision, to bring it in line with the ILO’s international standards on union freedom.
New development in the Fiat case. The Fiom-CGIL union filed a complaint against the government with the ILO in 2012 for not taking action, as signing party to the international conventions on union freedom, in its battle against the carmaker since 2010. In its complaint, it denounced the Italian government for breach of the ILO’s conventions No. 87, 98 and 135, as it signed them and did not sanction the breaches to its provisions committed by Fiat towards the Fiom since the separate agreemen
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