The Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo, signed the decrees which identify the professional associations of a trade union nature representing the personnel of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) and of the military police forces (Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza).
"With these two provisions, now sent to the control bodies and soon in the Official Journal, we respect the commitment to start as soon as possible the process of contractual renewal of the security-defense sector, of fundamental importance in the current international context in which we live", comments Zangrillo, who thanks for the joint work the Minister of Defense, Giudo Crosetto, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
"Safety - he states - is an asset with high social value.
We want workers in this sector to continue to carry out their activities in the best possible way at the service of citizens, for a safer and, therefore, more efficient Italy".
The two decrees, explains a note, originate, in particular, from law n.46 of 2022 which, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court, establishes for the first time the legality of trade union associations. Until that moment, the Military Order Code did not allow this possibility, for historical and political reasons, recognizing only the representative associations that were institutionally part of the military organisation, Cocer, Cobar and Coir, which now cease to have their functions.
The presence of trade union associations, now foreseen ex lege also for armed forces and police forces which remain fully military, is a significant change: the military world follows, almost fifty years later, that of the civil police forces, for which the 'long march' towards unionization ended in the early 1980s".
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