Federations to protest over collective bargaining

The four public service federations - Fp Cgil, Cisl Fp, Pa Uil and Uil Fpl - are organising three large assemblies of workers at the beginning of July in Milan on the 1st, Rome on the 2nd and in Bari on 3rd. These will mark the start of protests over the continuing freeze on collective bargaining in the public sector. The unions want to get bargaining back on track and make it clear to the government that a proper reform of public administration will only be possible with full consultation of the trade unions. [Read more at > Fp-Cgil (IT)->http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT

The FSC-CCOO federation organised a national conference on collective bargaining on 13-14 May to debate strategies and discuss the impact of labour reforms over the past two years. The federation's assessment is that the reforms have only served to increase unemployment, maintain the duality of the labour market, further decrease the use of permanent contracts while encouraging the most precarious forms of temporary and part-time contract. Collective bargaining has been substantially affected in terms of coverage and employers' scope to make unilateral changes to pay and conditions. The FSC

The public sector federations, FP-CGIL, CISL-FP and UIL-FPL, have expressed their anger in delays to negotiations covering over a million workers in public health and local government. The unions argue that the basis for negotiations across the public sector were laid out in the framework agreement of November 2016 and there is no justification for not moving forward quickly with the sector-level negotiations. The three federations are planning a mobilisation for 5 February to put pressure on the government and employers.