Members of FP-CGIL, CISL, UIL-FP and UIL-FPL have taken industrial action across the country in protest at the decision of the Don Gnocchi private health group to withdraw from the collective agreement. The unions are angry that the Foundation has failed to acknowledge the major sacrifices made by its employees in recent years and is now taking this unilateral action despite all the attempts by the unions to negotiate.
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