In October, several strikes hit the Italian IT sector, which is going through a rough patch. IBM is planning to reorganize the group, probably with a drawdown in the south of the country; EDS-HP's workers are still mobilized after the two groups merged; and Engineering opened a mass layoff procedure which will affect 236 employees in the former Atos Origin Italia. (Ref. 080831)
HP-EDS. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has almost 3.000 employees in Italy; unions say 2.000 of them are governed by metalworkers’ national collective agreement. After the group was bought by Hewlett Packard (HP) last may and after the announcement of 9.330 job cuts in Europe (out of almost 25.000 worldwide), unions have been mobilized at all levels (see our dispatch No. 080806). An eight-hour strike took place on September 22, with major participation, and the trade unions organized a national
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