Social coalition

The leader of the Italian FIOM metalworkers’ union, Maurizio Landini, has launched a plan for a new “social coalition” bringing together unions and other groups opposed to the economic and labour market reforms of Matteo Renzi’s centre-left government.

At the end of March, the union organised a protest rally in Rome against the government’s Jobs Act which reforms unfair dismissal rules and other employment regulations.

Susanna Camusso, the general secretary of Italy’s largest trade union confederation, CGIL — of which FIOM is a leading affiliate — has, however, stressed that while her organisation is willing to work on developing a social coalition, it should not form the basis of a new political party.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/uk-italy-protest-idUKKBN0MO0SA20150328