Italy: unions to mobilize after Telecom Italia announced 5.000 job cuts

The three single trade unions of the sector already called in the National Telecom Coordinating unit as well as the structures concerned, for a meeting on June 10. They are already mobilizing all employees to defend their job. There will most likely be a strike by the end of the month. (Ref. 080465)
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Wrong and intolerable. This is how the three single trade unions, Fistel-Cisl, Slc-Cgil and Uilcom, defined the 5.000 job cuts by 2010 announced by Telecom Italia yesterday. This announcement came as a cold shower in a context where unions were rejoicing with tangibly improved social relations during the negotiation for the company agreement signed on May 16. This restructuring process should enable Telecom Italia to save €300 million a year, but unions never received an explanatory industrial

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