The CGIL launched its NIdiL (Nuove Identità di Lavoro – New Work Identities) section in 1998 to ensure the representation and protection of atypical workers.
Today, NIdiL represents several categories of atypical workers, such as temporary workers, collaborators, freelancers, and the unemployed.
NIdiL is committed to preventing the abuse of self-employment status. When workers are correctly classified as self-employed, NIdiL fights for them to have more rights and protections. Many platform workers, particularly delivery drivers, are among the affiliates of NIdiL CGIL.
During the COVID-19 crisis, NIdiL launched several campaigns to protect platform economy workers. In Piedmont, for example, it supported a strike by Amazon workers protesting the unsuitable working conditions imposed by the company during the emergency.
At the national level, NIdiL launched the #dimenticatidaconte campaign, denouncing the fact that the measures taken by the Italian government were largely inadequate for delivery workers. NIdiL also spearheaded legal action against JUST EAT, which led to the recognition of the platform workers’ right to safety and health and established the applicability of labor relations regulations to them.
NIdiL CGIL also committed to engaging with self-organized delivery worker movements and maintained forward-looking cooperation with the two other main Italian trade union confederations, putting forward proposals for better protection of this category of workers from the Italian government. Together with the CGIL and its federations, NIdiL promotes the idea of a Universal Charter of Labor Rights, which calls for the granting of rights based on constitutional principles to all workers, regardless of their status.