Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement in ceramics

After five months bargaining, ceramics unions, who presented three separate platforms, reached a unitary agreement for the renewal of the sector’s CCN, which expired on June 30th.  Valid from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2013, the agreement signed on the night of November 22nd in Rome between Confindustria Ceramica for employers and Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil for unions affects nearly 40,000 employees in over 300 businesses, most of which are concentrated in Emilia-Romagna.  The agreement provides for an average €107 monthly wage increase and a fixed €120 for the period without a CCN.
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employers and Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil for unions affects nearly 40,000 employees in over 300 businesses, most of which are concentrated in Emilia-Romagna. The agreement provides for an average €107 monthly wage increase and a fixed €120 for the period without a CCN.

Key novelties. Filctem-CGIL’s Francesco Fontanelli rejoiced with the “major novelties in the normative part,” mentioning the “improvement of industrial relations at all levels,” from observatories to joint action to

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