In Rovereto, on August 31, the management of Sandvik, the Swedish precision engineering giant, signed with the regional representatives of the Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil unions and its Unitary Workplace Representation Structure (RSU) a new collective agreement for its undertaking where about 100 people work. This agreement will run for three years (2012-2014) and was unanimously approved by all the workers in the company. After six months bargaining - "without a single hour of strike" -, the company's request for productive flexibility to appeal to overtime was compensated by innovative provisions on work-life balance. (Ref. 120606)
Paolo Cagol, who signed the agreement for the Fim-Cisl (which represents a great majority of workers in the establishment), told Planet Labor that unions managed to “secure almost all the objectives” of the union platform.
New social policy. The new agreement stipulates that mothers and fathers will get three days off paid by the company for the child’s birth, to be used within a year.
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