Italy: unions agreed on the guidelines for the reform of the industrial relations system

The managements of the trade union confederations Cgil, Cisl and Uil approved, on may 12, the guidelines for the reform of the industrial relations system : reaffirmation of the role of national collective agreements, better articulation between the two negotiation levels, improvement of union democracy; these are the tracks of the text, which still needs to be consulted by the employees before being negotiated with the Confindustria at the beginning of June. (Ref. 080377)
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“An agreement which builds a new union”. This is how the Cisl’s general secretary, Raffaele Bonnani, defined the agreement on the guidelines of the reform of the IR system, approved by the Cisl, the Cgil and the Uil. There are not many differences from the document presented in February (see our article No. 080140), the main novelty being the rules regarding union representativeness and democracy, wished by the Cgil. Now, the document must pass through the regional structures of the three feder

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