After the results of the last legislative elections, which showed the Cgil's incapacity to bring its members' votes to the Democratic Party, the Confindustria's outgoing chair questioned its representativeness. The organization suspects employers of wanting to undermine the trade union on the eve of the beginning of the negotiations on collective bargaining's structure. This is happening as a controversial book on the "union caste" has just been published and that, in practice, unity between the three large unions seems tottering. (Ref. 080327)
Even though they are Cgil members, most workers and employees in northern Italy voted for the Northern League, whereas in the south, many chose the center-right. According to some analysts, this would show that the labor world is not politically represented in the left-wing party anymore. Others think it shows a gradual shift between social and political representation, since there are more union members, which is no longer a “vote pool for reference parties”. Even more so, in his book on union
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