Italy’s electrical sector’s unions have approved forming a single platform to renew the sector’s national collective agreement that affects 60,000 workers. Unions are looking to reunite the sector in recombining all electrical related businesses both public and private and extending worker protection to those employed in renewable energies, energy efficiency activities, and sub-contracting. Unions are also calling for measures to stabilize jobs in a sector in crisis and they have announced a mobilization campaign will commence if the government just sits on the sidelines.
Reuniting the sector. More than 500 assemblies gave the green light and on 30 September the centralized executives at Filctem-CGIL, Flaei-Cisl, Uiltec-Uil approved the platform to renew the electrical sector’s national collective agreement that is due to expire on 31 December 2015. The unions have asked the business bodies, Assoelettrica-Confindustria, Utilitalia, Energia Concorrente, Enel, Gse, and Sogin, to return to the situation of a single national collective agreement (NCA) thus moving on from the current public | private NCA split that had been put in place when an NCA was signed in 2013 with the private sector body Energia Concorrente (c.f.
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