The FP-CGIL federation will be mobilizing for a national demonstration on 8 October which will highlight the threat to public services and collective bargaining posed by the European institutions and exposed in the leaked letter from the European Central Bank (ECB) to the Italian government. The ECB letter not only calls for widespread privatisation of public services but for wage reform and decentralization of collective bargaining. The ETUC has also reacted angrily to the ECB’s interference in natonal collective bargaining arrangements.
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And at > ETUC (EN)
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