Apple announces the arrival of the new generation of iPhone in Italian stores and workers announce a strike. The day after the presentation of Cupertino’s first foldable smartphone, Filcams CGIL, Fisascat CISL and Uiltucs proclaim a national strike in Apple Retail Italy, which has 17 stores including the one in Piazza Liberty in Milan and via del Corso in Rome, and 1,600 workers. They will strike on September 18, precisely when the new iPhone arrives in Italian stores, to unlock negotiations on hiring, workloads, and the stabilization of fixed-term contracts.
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From the assemblies held on September 7, the unions write in a note, “a situation characterized by increasing workloads, insufficient staff, and growing pressure on productivity has emerged, also following the introduction of new organizational processes. The store workers have been enduring a level of pressure for some time that cannot be further aggravated.”
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Precisely for this reason, the unions have proposed a series of measures to address organizational difficulties, but without obtaining structural responses. To overcome the critical issues, the unions have been requesting for months “a shared hiring plan, the stabilization of a portion of fixed-term contracts, and the voluntary increase of part-time hours, to be adjusted according to the needs of individual stores and with fixed timelines.”
In the subsequent meetings, the company did not show willingness regarding the proposals, despite having announced an increase in fixed-term contracts and an advance of the related hires. For the unions, this solution “does not address the structural nature of the problem: the coverage periods of fixed-term contracts now almost reach seven months. The launch of the new generation of iPhone now opens a new phase of intense activity also for Italian stores. For this reason, the Italian unions believe that the multinational must promptly address the organizational issues and guarantee sustainable working conditions.”
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