Il presente contributo è destinato al volume AISRI sulla dottrina dell’ultimo decennio in materia sindacale e di relazioni industriali.

The article offers a general overview of the Italian Labour law scholar’s opinions about the evolution of trade – union Italian legal system with respect to the change of the model of industrial relations. The essay focuses the key role played by the concept of “ trade - union representation” in basic matters like collective bargaining procedures and worker’s representation at plant level. The new set of rules arising in different way both from the legal order and from the autonomous social partners agreements shows weakness and strength. In the last part the Author discusses the different content and approach of two separate bills settled recently by two groups of Labour law scholars in order to have in the future a new Statutory Act in this matter.