Italian unions mobilise over massive cut in pay budget
18 September 2008
A series of assemblies have been organised over the next few weeks for different groups of workers in the public sector to discuss how to react in response to massive cuts in the public sector pay budget. The government claims that it is ready to negotiate over public sector pay increases for 2008-09. However, trade unions argue that government figures reveal a shortfall of €1.7 billion in the public sector pay budget and that on this basis workers can only expect a pay cut in 2009.
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Unions call national strike in private health sector
19 August 2008
The three main trade union confederations - CGIL, CISL and UIL - have called on the 150,000 workers in the private health sector to strike on 18 September in protest at the continuing failure of the employers to negotiate a new collective agreement. It is now 30 months since the last agreement expired. The unions will also mount a demonstration in Rome on the same day.
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Unions announce national strike in private health care
21 July 2008
The three main trade union federations in private health care have called for a national one-day strike in the sector on 18 September. The strike will be the latest stage in the unions’ campaign to secure a new collective agreement covering the sector’s 150,000 workers. The last agreement expired at the end of December 2005.
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Strike plan for 150,000 private health workers
8 July 2008
Following the national demonstration on 13 June the three main trade union federations have called a national assembly of delegates representing the 150,000 employees in the private health sector whose collective agreement has not been renewed for 30 months. The assembly will take place on 11 July and will discuss when to call a national strike of private health workers.
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Unions continue to mobilise over private health agreement
6 June 2008
The three Italian union federations are continuing to campaign over the long delayed collective agreement for the private health sector. Following a sit-in demonstration outside the head office of the ARIS organisation that represents religious healthcare institutions, the unions are now planning a fortnight of action around the country from 3 June to 13 June.
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Unions will continue mobilisation over private health agreement
23 May 2008
Trade unions representing workers in the private health sector report say they will continue to organise actions following the a national demonstration on 22 May. The collective agreement covering the private health sector should have been re-negotiated and renewed from 1 January 2005 but 29 months on there is still no progress.
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Unions protest over failure to re-negotiate private health agreement
9 May 2008
The three main trade union federations are uniting in a national demonstration on 9 May demanding renewal of the collective agreement covering 150,000 workers in the private health sector. A new collective agreement should have come into effect in January 2006 and the unions now want an urgent response from the employers a new agreement signed before the summer break.
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Unions still demonstrating over 2006-2007 pay awards
28 January 2008
Public service unions have been forced to mobilise their members once again in order to secure the pay increases they negotiated for their members for the years 2006-2007. The public sector pay agreements are re-negotiated every two years although often with long delays. The various agreements on pay for 2006-2007 for public sector workers for were finally signed in May 2007 but have still not been implemented. A national mobilisation of workers in the local and regional government sector was called for 28 January while health workers will demonstrate on 4 February.
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Federations mobilise healthworkers
15 November 2007
The three main public sector federations - FP CGIL, FPS CSIL and UIL - are planning to mobilise their health service workers for a national demonstration at the health ministry in Rome following a statement from health minister Turco that he would not endorse the new collective agreement signed back in July. The unions are warning that inadequate staffing levels, pay cuts and more precarious employment are undermining levels of service in the sector.
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Public service unions join together in general strike
31 October 2007
The three main union federations in the public sector - FP-CGIL, FPS-CSIL and FPL-UIL, organised a national strike on 26 October in protest at the government’s failure to set a budget for 2008 that would allow for a decent pay rise for public sector workers. EPSU General Secretary Carola Fischbach-Pyttel and PSI general secretary-elect Peter Waldorff joined the demonstration in Rome.
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