Unions representing Italian bank
workers on Tuesday decided to call two days of strikes after
talks on renewing the collective labour contract for the sector
broke down on Monday, ANSA sources said.
The unions have not yet decided when the strikes will take
place.
They are planning other forms of protest, including a
boycott of overtime, the sources said.
Union leaders have decided to take legal action if the
Italian Banking Association (ABI) stops applying the existing
collective contract following the breakdown of negotiations,
sources said.
On Monday, ABI chief Alessandro Profumo said that unions
made unreasonable requests concerning employment, adding that
banks have already made concessions to the workers.
At the end of January, some 90% of unionized employees
participated in a strike for renewal of a national contract,
according to unions involved.
That included about 30,000 bank staff from all over the
country.
ABI said then that it was willing to negotiate but that
current staff levels had lowered profitability and productivity.
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