Italy: FdCA COuncil of Delegates statement: The new bargaining system: the official birth of the market union
The so-called reform of the bargaining system and the agrement between industry associations, the government and the CISL, UIL and UGL unions comes during an extremely difficult moment, socially and politically, for the workers’ movement because of the economic crisis. Apart from making life extremely difficult for millions of workers and pensioners, the economica crisis is a time when the power relations between capital and labour are redefined. The real weakening of rights and wages that this agreement will introduce is an integral part of capital’s policy in dealing with the crisis.
