Union Organisation of Employees in Atypical and Precarious Work in Italy

Abstract

"European trade unions are facing a very serious crisis of identity and \nstrategy. Probably the worst for a long time. Practically all the principal \norganisations appear to be in serious difficulty in intercepting the new \ntypologies of employment relationships; in interpreting their new identity \nprofiles; the expectations for representation and voice that emerge at both \nan individual and collective level. In the post-Fordist economy there are \nmore and more SMEs companies, in the service sector, with skilled white \ncollar workers, many of which female, with atypical or subcontract employment \nrelationships, new cultural attitudes and expectation in terms of \nrepresentations and voice. From a trade union viewpoint, all these elements \nimpose a radical turnaround of attitudes and approaches in order to \nmaintain and possibly reach all those employees who still suffer inequalities, \nprecariousness, exploitation. One of the most interesting and recent \nexperiments is probably represented by the Italian trade union movement, \nconcerning the specific organisation of the atypical workers into the frame \nof the three historical big confederations (Cgil, Cisl and Uil). A socially \nand juridical heterogeneous universe, composed by agency temporary \nworkers and semi-dependent workers. Into the international scenario of \nunion density decline the article describes this experience, within the peculiarities \nof the Italian model of trade unionism and industrial relations." (author's abstract)

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