«A new contract, fair and dignified». Even in Calabria the metalworkers went on strike today, giving rise to a sit-in in front of the Confindustria headquarters in Catanzaro to urge the reopening of negotiations for the renewal of the national contract. To promote the strike and sit-in in the Calabrian capital Fiom Cgil, Fim Cisl and Uilm Uil: the dispute in the region concerns around 20 thousand metalworkers.
According to the unions «the discussion with Federmeccanica has not seen any progress, on the contrary it has produced a document which is in stark contrast to the workers’ requests. Today we are striking with the aim of reopening negotiations on the basis of our platform, which starts first of all from a wage increase, which serves to recover the purchasing power lost in recent years, and from an increase in resources in order to guarantee greater security in the workplace and more training”.
At the end of the sit-in, the unions were received by the regional leaders of Confindustria, obtaining their willingness to transmit the demands relating to the contractual platform to the national level.
