The Evolution of the Industrial Relations System in the Italian Shipbuilding Industry.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter One -- 1. The Industrial Relations System in Italy's Shipbuilding Sectorin the context of Deregulation from the 1960s to the mid-1980s -- 1.1. State-owned Companies' Opt-out of Confindustria and theConclusion of the INTERSIND ASAPT Protocol of 5 July 1962 -- 1.2. From "Articulated Bargaining" to "Non-binding Bargaining" -- 1.3. The 1970s -- 2. Developing a Regulated and Participatory Model of Industrial Relations -- 2.1. The Slow Restoration of Dialogue in Industrial Relations -- 2.2. A New, Regulated Industrial Relations Model based on Dialogue and Cooperation -- 2.3. The IRI Protocol and the Federmeccanica Document -- 3. Moving from Public to Private Ownership -- 3.1. The Unsuccessful Implementation of the 1984 Protocol and the Conclusion of the New Protocol on 16 July 1986 -- 3.2. The Industrial Relations System in State Majority-owned Companies at the start of the 1990s -- 3.3. The Evolution of the Industrial Relations System in Italy -- Chapter Two -- 1. Economic Crisis and Business Restructuring -- 1.1. Reorganisations and Plans to Restructure the Shipbuilding Sector -- 1.2. From Reorganisation to Productivity-based Pay -- 1.3. Performance-based Remuneration Systems amid Improved Relations between Fincantieri and Trade Unions -- 2. Amendments to and Implementation of the New Variable Pay Scheme -- 2.1. The Struggle faced by the Ship-repair Sector and the Legitimization of the Performance-based Remuneration System -- 2.2. Employee Participation as a Starting Point for a New Variable Pay Scheme -- 2.3. The Agreement of 4 April 1996 -- 2.4. The 1999 Agreement and the Consolidation of Fincantieri's Production Model -- 3. Agreements concluded at the start of 2000 -- 3.1. From INTERSIND to FEDERMECCANICA.

3.2. Attempts to Privatise Fincantieri and Amendments to the Productivity-based Bonus -- Chapter Three -- 1. Supplementary Collective Bargaining as a Major Tool to Deal with the Economic Recession -- 1.1. The Shipbuilding Industry's Economic and Production Growth in the 2000s -- 1.2. The Serious Economic Recession affecting the Shipbuilding Industry in 2008 -- 1.3. Collective Bargaining as a Catalyst for Seeing to the Serious Recession Hitting International Markets -- 2. The Economic Crisis and Production Issues -- 2.1. From 2010 to 2012 -- 2.2. The Reorganisation Plan of 21 December 2011 -- 3. Market Recovery and The search for New Forms of Operational Flexibility -- 3.1 First Signs of Recovery in Worldwide Shipbuilding -- 3.2 Negotiations to enter into a New Company-level Collective Agreement at Fincantieri -- 4. The Supplementary Collective Agreement of 24 June 2016 -- 4.1. New Results-based Pay -- 4.2. New Forms of Occupational Welfare -- 4.3. The long-awaited Review of the Remuneration System and the Focus on Training and Outsourcing -- 4.4. The New Industrial Relations System -- 5. By way of Conclusion -- Bibliography.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how industrial relations in Italy's shipbuilding sector have developed over recent years, taking Fincantieri - the leading and most well-known Italian shipbuilding company - as a case study. To this end, an investigation of relevant literature and collective agreements is carried out to understand how national and company-level collective bargaining has evolved over time.

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