0% of union members must vote for it. Failing this, if the strike call is voted by at least 20%, it will be necessary for them to obtain approval by 30% through a “prior compulsory referendum”. This is one of the provisions of the bill approved by the Council of Ministers, which gives the government a mandate to ratify a single text of strike legislation over the next two years. The union confederation CGIL has pulled the alarm signal, basic unions are preparing for confrontation, whereas the Cisl and Uil confederations are satisfied with the text. (Ref. 090229)
According to the Minister of Labor, Maurizio Sacconi,
the government can count on “a broad convergence with most of the unions and
employers’ associations” for the bill. Approved by the Council of Ministers on
February 27 and composed of five articles, it grants the government a mandate
to modify the legislation on strikes in all “the sectors or activities which
have repercussions on the right to mobility and freedom of circulation”.