After a month, the strike of opera house employees is over. The SLC-CGIL union has let it be known that a "hypothesis of Understanding" has been signed for the renewal of the contract. The last contract for foundation employees was in 2001 and has never been adjusted since: minimum salaries were revised only in 2006 to adjust them to the changeover from the lira to the euro. Since last October 21, choristers, musicians, technicians and administrators at 12 of Italy's 14 opera and symphony foundations had been blocking the premieres of every performance to demand the renewal and adjustment of their contracts. However, the strikes did not affect people working at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and La Scala in Milan, who have independent contracts with better conditions and higher salaries. An agreement had been reached in 2014 to renew the contract, but the Court of Auditors had blocked it because the foundations did not have the money in their coffers to pay the raises. In most cases, indeed, the theaters were in debt, with the result that in the following years ten foundations were placed under receivership and subjected to severe restructuring plans, with spending cuts and staff reductions. The SLC-CGIL communiqué clarifies that, with regard to the periods prior to the three-year period 2019-2021, "the parties decided to postpone the discussion pending economic coverage conditions that would allow it".