The central committee of the metalworkers' trade union FIOM eventually rejected the agreement on the social pact, signed on July 23 by three trade unions (see our article n°070660). For a lot of analysts, this refusal might have an impact on the results of workers consultation and it is a sign that there is a latent conflict within the trade union confederation CGIL. (Ref. 070747)
A majority of the trade unions’ central committee’s members (125 favourable votes out of 159 voters) voted for the document proposed by Gianni Rinaldi, the FIOM’s general secretary, which was opposed to the stand defended by Fausto Durante, leader of the union’s reformist wing, in favour of adopting the agreement. This document sees the pension’s reform unfavourably, especially the provisions which replaces the rules determining retirement age (called “scalone” – see our story No. 070655). It a
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