On 16 September 2015, a central meeting convened by the Metals sector’s business leaders bodies: Federmecccanica and Assistal, to examine developments in the sector, set out a narrow framework for negotiations to renew the national collective agreement that expires on 31 December 2015. Unions are pushing the angle of an economic recovery but they remain divided on other claims. The Fim-Cisl and the Uilm, both signatories of the current and previous agreements are negotiating from a common platform. The Fiom-CGIL union that hasn’t signed the agreement since 2008 is unilaterally conducting “an extraordinary consultation” with all workers in the sector.
On 16 September Federmecccanica and Assistal met with the Fim, Fiom, and Uilm unions to jointly assess conditions in the metals sector. The business leaders set out a framework for negotiations to renew the collective agreement, whilst the unions relied on the argument indicating signs of recovery in the economy; a recovery that the business leaders see as too weak yet (a 1% rise in production in recent quarters) to warrant a quick return to the conditions that applied before the crisis.
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