ROME (Reuters) – Workers at Italy’s Datalogic plan a series of stoppages during December and January in response to the company’s failure to increase wages and reduce working hours, unions said on Thursday.
Italian workers from multiple sectors have been staging numerous protests in recent months, voicing their discontent over salaries and working conditions. Unions staged a nationwide strike last week to protest over the government’s budget.
Datalogic is an Italian firm specialising in data processing for bar codes, security measures, and laser marking and employs approximately 2,900 people globally across 29 countries, according to the company’s website.
Union members voiced fears over potential job losses and declared a halt to overtime and flexible working hours, as well as stoppages covering 16 hours in total.
Unions called for a meeting with the company’s management, urging them to present a “credible industrial plan” for the relaunch of Datalogic and its Datasensing unit.
Datalogic was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Francesca Piscioneri, editing by Keith Weir)