The blue suits have also returned to the square in Reggio Calabria to ask Federmeccanica for the reopening of the negotiations for the renewal of the national collective labor agreement. The representatives of CGIL, CISL and UIL gathered in the square in front of Hitachi Railsthe Japanese multinational who took over the former Omeca (Calabrian mechanical workshops) by the public group Ansaldo Breda, to demonstrate against the detention of the negotiations.
“The workers – say the unitary unions – do not require only an increase in salary, but claim adequate measures to increase safety levels throughout the sector”. The metalworking contract expired three years ago and concerns 1.5 million workers throughout Italy, of which around 20 thousand in Calabria. The Hitachi Rails of Reggio Calabria are in progress about 600 workers, and railway carriages and cars for metro intended all over the world are produced in the plant.