Italy: social partners in the paper industry sign a unitary agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement

War figure in spite of a unitary agreement. The unitary agreement for the renewal of the paper industry’s CCN was signed on November 4 in Rome by the Assocarta employers’ organizations and the Fistel, SLC, Uilcom and UGL unions. The CGIL’s sectoral federation, the SLC, says that it didn’t give anything to the new conventional system which its confederation rejects. For this renewal, the SLC followed the confederation’s guidelines, i.e. “no exception,” the creation of “exclusively conventional equal organizations” or even “rigorously defending the role and prerogatives of the national collective agreement and committing to amplify and strengthen local collective agreements. Moreover, the wage increase would amount to €120 for the middle rank when it would have amounted to €87.9 if the ISAW index, used as a reference for wage increases with the new system, was applied. However, Armando Giacomassi, Fistel-Cisl leader, says that the new model was applied because the ISAE index leads to a €95 increase, which is what was agreed to for the renewal of the middle rank.
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the new system, was applied. However, Armando Giacomassi, Fistel-Cisl leader, says that the new model was applied because the ISAE index leads to a €95 increase, which is what was agreed to for the renewal of the middle rank.

In addition to this war figure, the agreement, valid for three years, provides for €160 to cover the period without an agreement and €250 to compensate for workers in businesses without a local collective agreement (CCL). It also promotes CCLs with the creation of a specifi

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