Italy: negotiations on the renewal of metalworkers’ collective agreement in a deadlock

Disagreements between the negotiators of the new collective agreement for metalworkers are increasing: they mainly concern wages and working time. Judging that the state of negotiations with the employers' confederation Federmeccanica is negative, the main trade union organizations (FIOM-CGIL, FIM-CISL and UILM-UIL), are calling on mobilization. (Ref. 070820)
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Negotiations on the renewal of the metal sector’s collective agreement– which will cover almost 1.6 million employees – which started a few months ago, could lead to an important conflict. The three main union organizations (FIOM-CGIL, FIM-CISL and UILM-UIL) expressed in a joint press release their discontentment as to the negotiations with the management and called for general mobilization.

Disagreements – Concerning wages, unions are asking for a €117 increase for all the employees of the sec

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