Italy: leather social partners sign unitary agreement renewing the sectoral national collective agreement

Pointing out that union relations in the sectors have “always been rather complicated and ambivalent,” the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil unions rejoiced with the signature, on June 28th, of a unitary agreement with the Unione Nazionale Industria Conciaria (Unic), the sector’s employers’ organization, affiliated with Confindustria, for the renewal of the CCN in the leather industry (30,000 employees) which expired on October 31, 2010.  they put this result down to the return of union unity (at first, they presented three separate platforms) and to unitary mobilization, which regulated, over strikes and demonstrations supported by territorial unions, nearly 8 months of tense negotiations.  The agreement was signed for three years, between November 1, 2010 and October 31, 2013.
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ewal of the CCN in the leather industry (30,000 employees) which expired on October 31, 2010. they put this result down to the return of union unity (at first, they presented three separate platforms) and to unitary mobilization, which regulated, over strikes and demonstrations supported by territorial unions, nearly 8 months of tense negotiations. The agreement was signed for three years, between November 1, 2010 and October 31, 2013.


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