TRADE UNIONS AND BUSINESS: A PACT FOR WELFARE?

The General Secretary of the FIOM-CGIL union and the President of Turin Industrial Union discuss a key issue: who should bear responsibility for sustaining the welfare state in such a rapidly changing economy? Wages, collective bargaining, productivity, the technological transition and increasingly marked differences between industry and services in terms of both productivity and protections: trade unions and businesses often have different priorities, but in the face of the welfare crisis they share more than it might seem. Two leading figures in Italian industrial relations discuss the matter.