With 75.5% of the votes, the Cgil's federation of metalworkers, the Fiom, rejected the draft reform of the conventional system adopted by the three union confederations Cgil, Cisl and Uil (see our article No. 080377) which was supposed to be a basis for negotiations with employers. Instead, it proposes a reform which would notably plan negotiations at site-level. The call for unity of the Cgil's general secretary wasn't heard and the gap between the federation and the trade union is getting wider. (Ref. 080404)
“I am claiming the right to dissension because democracy is the Cgil’s most precious good” said the Fiom’s general secretary, Gianni Rinaldini, when closing the Fiom’s organization conference which took place in Cervia on May 15 and 16, in preparation for the Cgil’s national organization conference which should be held at the end of the month. The conference has widened the gap between the Fiom and the trade union, after the separation on the Welfare protocol in September 2007 (see our dispatch
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