Renewal in Italian Labor union

What is the cause of the recent revival in the Italian labor unions? In the past five decades, Italian labor unions have been like a Ping –Pong ball, bouncing from weak and divided to strong and united. Membership has also been increasing and decreasing as the unity and strength have been fluctuating. Over the past ten years, Italian unions have experienced a remarkable resurgence. After more than a decade of declining political power, membership loss, …showed first 75 words of 608 total…

…showed last 75 words of 608 total…on highly centralized collective bargaining since this worked to the advantage of employers. Confindustria would set wages and working conditions to the most backward and unproductive sectors of the economy (such as farming) and then generalize these terms to all of industry. Due to the fact that unions themselves were highly centralized and also weak in both the labor market and the political arena, they were unable to resist the low cost, labor sweating strategy.