Workers in the banking sector have proclaimed a general strike for next Friday 30 January, in "support of the right to renew the national labor contract and against ABI's unilateral decision to cancel and subsequently disapply the contracts". This is what the trade unions have decided and communicated, that a just over a year after the mobilization of October 31, 2013, they are back on a war footing and announce four major national demonstrations. Three in the big cities: Rome, Milan and Palermo and a fourth in Ravenna, the city of the president of ABI Antonio Patuelli.
The breakdown of negotiations with the Abi had already taken place at the end of November. Alessandro Profumo, chairman of the trade union and labor affairs committee of the ABI, said he was available to discuss the safeguarding of purchasing power, but recalling the profound changes in the sector's scenario such as not to allow uncontrolled trends in labor costs, he had said no to the trade union aut aut. Hence the breakup and the strike, the second in a few months after 12 years of union "pax".
