16 September 2010

Italian football association (FIGC) president Giancarlo Abete says he will intervene if there is no resolution to the proposed professional football players' striker on September 25 to 26.

 Abete spoke to the presidents of the league and players' association late yesterday after the pair had met to discuss a resolution to the proposed strike. Abete told reporters today: "We are working hard to find a solution by Sept. 25 because if we haven't found one by then, (the association) will intervene.'' Italy's players announced the strike action in response to a proposal to limit their rights to refuse a transfer near the end of their contracts.

Talks will continue but the strike is still on is the reaction of the Italian Footballers’ Association (AIC) after its first meeting with the League (Lega di Serie A) and the (FIGC). At the meeting in Rome, the League finally presented its draft for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The old CBA had expired on 30 June and the League had refused to negotiate with the players about a new collective contract. Two weeks ago the League designed a new contract on their own. The footballers reacted angrily and announced a strike, due to the League’s lack of respect for the AIC. In Rome the League unveiled eights points it wants to change in comparison with the old CBA. The AIC does not agree with the proposed collective contract. ‘We are miles apart on two of the eight points’, reacted union president Sergio Campana. Those two points Campana refers to are the following: fuori-rosa: a club has the right to divide it’s squad into two groups.

This means players that are playing regularly are in one group, and players who according to the club have no future with the club are in the other group; transferimenti forzati: a player is obliged to accept a transfer if a new club offers him the same contract under the same conditions and at the same level as the contract he has with his new club. That means for example that If a club offers Zlatan Ibrahimovic the same contract he has with AC Milan, and plays at the same level (Serie A and Champions League), Ibrahimovic has to accept this transfer if Milan also agrees. For the AIC both issues are unacceptable and not open for any discussion.

A player has got the right to train with the first squad of his club. And it is also a player’s right to have the

freedom of choice of a new club. The AIC does also not accept the six other issues, that concern the

flexibility of salaries, the medical treatment, player’s activities, disciplinary sanctions, the national dispute

resolution chamber and a code of behaviour, but it is willing to negotiate about these six subjects, to a certain degree. All parties have scheduled two new meetings. On Wednesday there will be a technical meeting, where lawyers of the AIC and the League hope to reach an agreement on the six issues last mentioned. On Friday there is a meeting with the presidents of both parties, who will also talk about the two first mentioned subjects.{jcomments on}

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