Standoffs between staff unions and management have become a regular occurrence at the Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome, which saw a four-day strike of its general service staff last week.
Professional staff also showed solidarity with the strike, held Monday through Thursday, to protest the recently announced policy to put a 55-month cap on short-term contract renewability.
The mobilization was a reaction to a “lack of real dialogue with management, its autocratic approach and lack of respect for the staff,” according to a post published on the Union of the General Service Staff's Facebook page. Representatives of the general staff declined Devex’s request for comment at the time of writing.