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New Collective Agreement for Italian Tourism Workers

Posted to the IUF website 19-Aug-2003

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The IUF Executive Committee Meeting of April 9-10 this year adopted a resolution in solidarity with the struggle by Italy's tourism unions to renew the collective agreement for the sector, which lapsed on December 31, 2001. Following 18 months of negotiations, marked by employer intransigence and union mobilization including a nation-wide strike of motorway restaurants on April 18 this year, Filcams, Fisascat and Uiltucs have signed new national sectoral agreements with two of the three tourism employers associations.

The first agreement, signed on July 19 and covering over 1 million workers in approximately 300,000 operations, provides for salary increases in four stages beginning in July 2003 and two one-off payments in August 2003 and January 2004. It also establishes a supplementary health insurance plan for all tourism workers and affirms and expands call-back rights for temporary and seasonal workers. The agreement signed four days later with the second employers association contains the same provisions set down in this agreement.

Just before the August holiday break, the third employers association agreed to pay the July instalment of the salary increase and the August one-off payment in anticipation of resuming negotiations in September. The unions are confident that this means that, at least in terms of economic provisions, uniform treatment has been guaranteed for all tourism workers.