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Fiat Industrial has been condemned by the Turin Court of Appeal for anti-union behaviour against Fiom-CGIL, which was excluded, at the end of 2011, from the Special Negotiation Body (SNB) that was supposed to negotiate the Group's European Works Council (EWC). The Court of Appeal considered the conduct of Fiat to constitute interference in the nomination of Italian components of the SNB, which is appointed by the trade unions only. The judgment - the first that relates to European-level issues – is a credit to the tenacity and consistency of Fiom-CGIL and industriAll Europe, which has refused to negotiate without Fiom-CGIL.
This attitude enabled Fiat Industrial to circumvent the law providing for the negotiation for 3 years, and deprived the workers of their rights to benefit from an EWC.
After the ILO recommendations to the Italian Government and this judgment from Turin, Fiat union rights have become an international and European issue, to which they must give an answer.
At the same time, the judgement is a lesson for those who are trying to limit the right of association by only granting union representation to unions that sign collective agreements.
IndustriAll Europe expects that this judgement will help to prevent similar situations in Italy and in Europe as a whole.
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