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On Friday 27 March 2009 , the management of the plant Eurogravure Treviglio (part of Arvato group, which is one of the leaders in the printing of magazines) informed the Trade Unions Federations and the shop floor Union Representatives that the company intends to launch a procedure aiming the cancellation of all agreements on wages at company level - with the objective to align the wages with the ones defined in the national collective agreement (which will have as a consequence for the workers in Eurogravure a loss of wages of about 25%).



During these last years, Eurogravure maintained the wages at the same level and making them depending on productivity gains, but obviously today the management wants to take profit from the strong crisis which affect the market of magazines printing and wants to erase all the advantages obtained by the workers during previous years.



The regional offices of SLC-CGIL, CISL-FISTEL, UILSIC-UIL strongly condemn the behaviour of management which will be fought by all means and ask the workers of other gravure and offset companies in Lombardia to not make obstacles to the Union actions in Eurogravure by refusing to print its titles.



The Italians Unions warn that if the Eurogravure management wins this fight, that will be taken as an exemple in other printing companies which want to put on the shoulders of workers (who are suffering of temporary unemployment because of lack of work) all the consequences of the crisis– and that this will lead to a dangerous spiral drawing all workers downward.