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Business-Labor: Equal Status and Common Planning
The pandemic has highlighted the fragilities and deep inequalities that characterize the current economic system. At the same time, a process has begun that requires a profound change, the participation of workers in business decisions. Fifty years after Italy's "Workers' Statute" was passed, the time has come to define a new statute that guarantees the same rights and protections, independent of ...
Four Possible Destinies for Labor Unions
Since the end of the 1970s, in almost all European countries the generational shift in the world of labor has caused a drop in the levels of unionization. Many factors have contributed to this decline, related to both the market and the organization of work. Deindustrialization, polarization of professional structures, and the increase of immigrant workers risk undermining the social cohesion between ...
How and Why Solitude is Growing among Insecure Workers
At the end of 2019, the total number of insecure workers in Italy was 3.123 million, a figure that has certainly been aggravated by the explosion of the pandemic in the early months of 2020. The general weakening of labor unions can be attributed, on the one hand, to the reduction of demand for labor in sectors where they were traditionally the strongest (services); and on the other, to the changes ...
A New Model of Co-Responsibility
In recent months, the company committees created to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to ensure business continuity have created a new model of co-responsibility between businesses and employees. This is a form of collaboration that labor unions could also adopt in the future, extending it to broader perimeters of bargaining.#A new level of participation of unions in the life of organizations ...