Over 15,000 bank employees are
expected to take to the streets Friday in a nationwide strike
after the Italian Banking Association (ABI) rescinded a national
collective bargaining contract, union organizers said Tuesday.
Protests are scheduled in Milan, Palermo, Ravenna, and
Rome.
"ABI's real objective is to dismantle the national
collective bargaining contract and its safeguards and to replace
it with a firm by firm contract negotiations," the eight
promoting unions said in statement.
"This will produce huge disparities in wages and in the
treatment of workers, paving the way for further savage job
cuts".
The banking sector currently employs 300,000 people, with
68,000 jobs lost over the past 15 years, the unions said.
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