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People walk near the Termini train station during a national public transport strike in Rome, Italy January 10, 2025.— Reuters
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Rome: After three decades of wages, workers in Italy have plenty of protests to protest, yet the salary attack is rare more than a day, which about the role of the country’s trade unions. I raise questions.
Italy is the only advanced country where inflation has decreased by 1990 and 2020, with economic cooperation and development organization data shows that consumer costs and anemia grow. Is
In Germany, the salary increased further between the third quarter of 2021 and the second quarter of last year, but inflation in Germany and inflation and wages in France increased by 11 %. Central bank data.
Economic factors partially accuse, including Italy’s employment rate is only 67 %, which is the lowest in the euro zone of 20 countries and provides workers with little bargaining power. Many laborers and workers say unions also have a heavy responsibility.
“Trade unions in Italy have changed primarily to become a service provider,” said Philippo Barbira, a Sociology at the University of Tourin University. “They help you do their tax deductions and help you to calculate what your pension will be, but they will not take the Emplo employers for increasing salaries.”
Following a colorful, banner, on November 29 against planned cuts on public spending on social security, public services and investment, the head of the largest union confederation fire, Morzio Landini, “to overthrow the country. Committed. “
The protests disrupted public transport, schools and hospitals, but like practically all strikes in Italy, it continued for only a day and did not yield any concrete results. A CGIL spokesman said that the main reason for the deterioration of Italy’s wages was due to years of job protection, which weakened job protection. . The union has urged a national referendum to vote whether to cancel the reforms that have promoted the firing staff to easy and short -term contracts.
The belt must be between April 15 and June 15, but the government has not yet set a date. The CGIL is also urging the legislation to prevent uncertainly low wage contracts, though it has little support in the right -wing ruling coalition. The bill has been presented in Parliament so far.
Although the power of the union has declined worldwide in recent decades, analysts say strikes are more concentrated and effective in countries like Germany, France and the United States, though they have a union membership far less than Italy.
After a seven -week walkout, in November, the US aircraft company Boeing staff earned a 38 % salary increase in four years, while thousands of workers in Germany’s Volkswagen in Germany had a deal in December. The rolling strike against the sixes before arriving.
Pensioner heavy unions
The Italian Union membership is relatively high, in one -third of all workers, but a large number of militancy does not increase.
The European Trade Union Institute’s data shows that French alliance is only one-third of Italy in Italy, but France is included in European countries, which most days have lost strikes in 2020-2023. Were Italy stopped providing its data in 2009.
A study by a economist and strike expert at Trento University says that more than 90 % of the strikes in Italy continued for a day or less, while 80 % of the last two days in the United States or so out For a long time.
About half of the HALF HALF of CGIL are pensioners, whose interests are represented by the Union when they lobby with the government. Retired is more than one -third of the other important Confederation, Cecil and the UIL.
In 2015, 40 -year -old logistics warehouse activist Salvatore Amoso left the CGIL with a group of colleagues to join the militant Kobas grass root organization, about which he said a sector The fleet is very difficult for its members. From health workers to metal workers.
“We have almost doubled in our wages and received lunch vouchers, holiday salaries and sick departments,” saiduso. “This has been a modest revolution in terms of salary, terms and dignity.”
Too poor to strike
Italian workers are in a weak position. Like other countries, when they strike, they do not get any salary, but unlike Germany and France, neither unions arranges meaningful strike funds to compensate for lost income.
This means that many low -paying workers feel that they cannot afford a strike, Vinsanzo Ferrante said, who teaches trade union law at the University of Milan in Katolika. “It’s not difficult to understand why the Italian strikes have been so low in the last 30 years,” he said. “One day, half a day, or just a few hours.”
The Italian stop pages are “defensive”, which aims to protect jobs and work conditions, rather than to increase salaries, said Pilty of the University of Tarao University. Usually one or two is called “warning strikes”, which usually lasts one day.
“Their aim is to tell the employer the business,” said Thorston Shelton, who studied a labor policy at the University of Tobenjan, Germany. The end strike that can sometimes last for weeks.
In Italy, national wages contracts are renewed with a delay of months or years, which creates a permanent cut of purchase power. At the end of 2024, more than 13 million Italian workers’ contracts included in the collective wage contracts expired, according to the National Statistics Bureau. The average delay in their renewal was 22 months.
Large unions have accepted this situation for years.
