Cristina Tajani

On 18 December 2009, the social partners in the chemicals and pharmaceutical sector signed an accord on renewal of the sector’s collective agreement. The agreement was signed by the sectoral trade union organisations affiliated to the General Confederation of Italian Workers (Confederazione Generale

The November 2009 meeting of the national directorate of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro, Cgil [1]) – the organisation’s uppermost governance body – formally marked the beginning of Cgil’s 16th congress (599Kb PDF) [2], which will be held in

The preliminary accord on continuing the nationwide collective agreement for the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector is the second renewal of an important nationwide agreement by all bargaining parties after the agreement of 22 January 2009 on the reform of the Italian

The agreement signed on 22 September 2009 by the trade unions and employer organisation in the food industry covers about 450,000 workers and comes four months after the expiry of the previous agreement and follows 16 hours of strike action in the sector. The signatory parties comprised the:

On 23 June 2009, the protocol entitled ‘Pact for work in the retail and services sectors’ was signed by the sectoral trade unions and the largest employer organisation in the retail trade sector. On the trade union side, the signatories included the Italian Federation of Commerce, Tourism and

On 18 June 2009, talks were held between the government, social partners and regional administrations regarding the future prospects of the Fiat Group [1] in Italy. The talks gave the company an opportunity to illustrate its intentions regarding the future of its Italian plants. They follow months

On 20 May 2009, the social partners concluded a new national collective agreement for the fishing industry, which covers some 40,000 workers. The parties to the agreement included: the Agroindustrial, Food and Environment Federation (Federazione Agricola Alimentare Ambientale Industriale, Fai-Cisl

In January 2009, the Italian Fiat Group [1] signed a preliminary agreement with the US car manufacturer Chrysler [2], expressing their intention to create a commercial alliance. The accord is the second such agreement since a deal was reached nine years ago with General Motors [3] (*IT0004151F* [4])