Italian metalworkers' federations are satisfied with Arcelor-Mittal's health and safety draft international framework agreement, which the European Metalworkers' Federation sent to its members for approval (see our dispatch No. 080429). The text provides for the establishment of joint health and safety committees in all the plants of the multinational company, which employs almost 2.000 people in Italy, mainly in Piombino (Tuscany). (Ref. 080430)
The final text of the draft agreement takes into account the recommendations made by the three Italian metalworkers’ federations, which are very pleased with the initiative. Gianni Alioti, responsible for the international office at the FIM-CISL, pointed out that unions got the multinational company to extend the tasks of the joint H&S committees to issues regarding environment, which they couldn’t do for the Italian collective agreement “because Federmeccanica’s management is archaic and near-
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