Wages under attack in local government - Italy - advice from EPSU

Italy

Wages under attack in local government The three public sector federations - Fp-Cgil, Cisl-Fp e Uil-Fpl - are warning of potential conflict in local government unless the government steps in to stop the attack on pay. The unions say that individual municipalities are reducing additional payments or making unilateral changes to contracts meaning that some workers are suffering even more on top of the four-year general freeze on bargaining in the public sector. Some local authorities under pressure to reduce budgets are looking for cuts in the wage bill and the unions argue that these are creating local conflicts that could build up into larger protests over pay. Read more at > Fp-Cgil (IT)