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In Brazil, most Group companies applied collective bargaining agreements in place with the local employers’
associations for each sector (e.g., FIEMG for companies in the Belo Horizonte, Betim, and Contagem areas).
Others have stipulated company-level agreements with similar increases. Overall, increases under these
collective agreements were higher than inflation, reflecting the country’s current economic growth, but were
nevertheless in line with increases applied for the local industrial system as a whole. Variable annual bonuses
were also paid on the basis of company results.
Finally, at the Fiat Automobiles Serbia Doo plant in Kragujevac, a collective labor agreement was reached,
with the union organization represented at the plant, covering both pay and employment conditions for the
approximately 1,100 workers at the site.
The level of labor unrest in Italy was higher than for 2009. The most significant labor action taken during the
year consisted of: strikes called by several trade unions at the beginning of the year in protest against the Group’s
2010-2011 Plan for Italy, presented in December 2009; strikes against the agreement signed on 15 June 2010
for the relaunch of the G.B. Vico plant in Pomigliano called by FIOM, which did not sign the agreement; and,
strikes protesting against the non-payment of additional performance bonuses for 2009. There were also a few
instances of minor labor action organized locally in relation to shifts, overtime and workloads.
The overall level of labor unrest in countries outside Italy was once again negligible this year. However, general
strikes were called between June and October in France to protest against government pension reforms – with
Group employees also taking part, albeit at significantly different levels for each company – and a general strike
was called in Spain at the end of September against the government budget (which also contained an increase
in retirement age and labor reforms) in which a significant number of employees of Group companies took part.