Federation reports on negotiations for managers
4 March 2010
The CISL public service federations has published the latest issue of its bilingual collective bargaining newsletter that reports on developments covering chief officers across the public sector. Negotiations covering chief officers in the ministries, regional and local administrations, non-economic public bodies and tax agencies, and non-medical managers of the national health system are all set to take place with the initial agreement in the ministries setting the main standard. Here the pay increases were in line with other public sector deals: 4.85% in 2006-2007 and 3.2% in 2008-2009. In the health sector the unions are finding it difficult to come to agreement with the employers over pay for workers who work mainly for the public sector and so forego possible additional income from private sector work.
Read more at > FPS-CISL (IT and EN)
Union calls for four-hour strike over government finances
4 March 2010
The CGIL trade union confederation is calling on all its public and private sector members to support a four-hour strike on 12 March to protest at the way the government has responded to the economic crisis. The confederation notes the rise in unemployment and the dismissal of precarious workers in the education and central government sector. CGIL wants to see lower tax thresholds for workers and more effort put into dealing with tax avoidance and evasion. It is also calling for the regularisation of migrant workers’ status.
Read more at > CGIL (IT)
And in English at > CGIL]
Unions to strike over working conditions in justice department
21 January 2010
The FP-CGIL, UILPA, RDB and FLP union organisations are co-ordinating strike action on 5 February. They are protesting at the government’s failure to allocate proper funding to the justice system in the current budget. The unions argue that, as a result of government cuts, some courts are facing closure and employees are seeing their working conditions deteriorate, with a failure to recruit and train adequate numbers of staff.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
Unions claim success in strike action and demonstrations
17 December 2009
The three public service federations have been mobilizing in recent weeks to put pressure on the government to ensure that public sector pay increases are properly funded. Pay agreements will now cover three-year periods rather than two and in the past unions have negotiated pay increases with the ARAN negotiating body only to find that the government causes problems by failing to allocate resources in the budget. The FP CGIL federation organized a public sector wide strike on 11 December while the CISL and UIL federations organized a range of demonstrations around the country beginning on 2 December.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
And at > FP CISL (IT)
Public sector unions plan national action in December
30 November 2009
The three main public sector union federations are all planning to protest against government policy on funding public sector pay. On 2 December the CISL FP and UIL FPL federations have called for a day of action demanding that the government honour agreements negotiated for the 2008-2009 period and ensure that funding will be available for the next bargaining round that will cover the three years 2010-2012. The FP-CGIL federation has called a national public sector strike on 11 December with a specific demand of a €150 a month increase over 2010-2012. The union has several other key demands including protection for women’s and casual workers jobs.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
Read more at > FP CISL (IT)
Unions pleased with support for waste sector strike
30 November 2009
The Italian unions organizing in the waste sector achieved a major success in their protest against the reforms of the government in the waste sector, 18 November 2009. With total or near stoppages of work in all regions, the unions are giving a strong signal to the government that the restructuring and privatization of the waste sector and companies does not have the support of workers. Unions are concerned about the impact on pay and conditions as well as quality of service if private companies took control of a larger share of the sector.
Read more at > FP-CGIL (IT)
And at > EPSU (EN)
Unions call strike in waste sector
28 October 2009
The three main unions – CGIL, CISL and UIL – have called for strike action in the waste sector on 20 November in response to government plans for the sector which will lead to privatisation or some form of public private partnership with at least a 40% share going to the private sector. The implications are that there will be very few services that will continue to be run by in-house providers. Apart from the likely impact on pay and conditions, the unions are worried about the effect of the reforms on environmental policies and the quality of service.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
Not a single euro for public sector workers
1 October 2009
The FP CGIL public service federation is warning of a pay freeze facing public sector workers. After a first meeting between the government and social partners, the union reports that the government there is not a single euro available to fund a pay increase in the public sector. FP CGIL says that workers should not be made to pay the price for the crisis and that unions will have to mobilise in a campaign against the government. The FP CISL federation has also given a “clear no” to the idea of a public sector pay freeze.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
Read more at > FP CISL (IT)
Unions mobilise to get action on private health collective agreement
12 September 2009
During September the three public service federations are mobilising their members in another push to renegotiate the collective agreement covering the private health sector. The unions will make this a public campaign highlighting the connection between quality services and treating workers with respect – pay and conditions in the sector should have been renegotiated in a new collective agreement four years ago. Unions want the employers to make a public commitment to renegotiate the contract and have called on the public authorities to put pressure on them as well.
Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)
Private health workers still waiting for renewal of agreements
25 August 2009
The 150,000 workers in the private health sector are still waiting for collective agreements for the years 2006-07 and 2008-09 to be renewed. The FP-CSIL federation has said that this is a priority, particularly now that most of the other major agreements in the public services have been re-negotiated, particularly the public health agreement. Over the summer the FP-CSIL, FP- CGIL and FPS-UIL public service federations have been looking at ways of making progress, for example, by putting pressure on the regional health authorities that sign contracts with the private sector employers.
Read more at > FP-CSIL (IT)
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