Metalworkers and public service workers plan strike action

The FIOM metalworkers’ and FP public sector federations of the CGIL trade union confederation came together on 13 February in a national strike and demonstration over precarious work. The unions estimate that around 700,000 people joined the national demonstration and FP-CGIL rejected the government’s claim that the strike was only supported by 6% of public sector workers. [Read more at > the joint union website (IT)->http://www.unitanticrisi.it/cms/] [And at > FP-CGIL (IT)->http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/9547] [And at > FP-CGIL (IT)->http://www.fpcgil.it/flex

The European Metalworkers' Federation is running a co-ordinated collective bargaining campaign focussing on the right to training. The campaign was launched at the Federation's fifth collective bargaining conference in Rome on 11 and 12 October. EMF affiliates will put the demand for an individual right to training on their collective bargaining agenda and the campaign will be closely monitored over the next couple of years. The EMF conference also reaffirmed the need to more co-ordination to resist social dumping and underlined the importance of building its eucoba collective bargaining

The KESK public services confederation ways it will organise a national day of strike action on 19 December unless the government responds to its demands in relation to the Budget for 2014. The confederation is highly critical of the government's policies on labour law and outsourcing of public services. It argues that public service workers face low pay and precarious working conditions made worse by the extensive sub-contracting of many services. The confederation is call for a TL 300 (€108) pay rise for civil servants, along with improvements to pensions and action to defend the position of