The three main unions in private health and residential care - Fp Cgil, Cisl Fp and Uil Fpl – are planning a general strike 18 June over the renewal of collective agreements. Minimum services will be provided as selected workers strike for the entire day or shift. The unions have been continually frustrated by the Aris and Aiop employer organisations who have failed to finalise negotiations and renew the private health agreement that expired 14 years ago. In residential health care is has been eight years since the last agreement. Negotiations have been going on for over two and a half years and regional authorities are committed to funding the renewal of the agreement but the employers have put further conditions on signing off the deal. The unions stress that employees in private health have been working as hard and facing the same COVID-19 risks as workers in public health care but without the same pay and conditions.
Unions set to strike in private health
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