Collective bargaining and public health protection. Which role for the implementation of Agenda 2030 Goal 3 and EU social policies?

After examining recent policies adopted at international and European level aimed at relaunching an ethic of sustainability capable of protecting public health, the paper intends to demonstrate how industrial relations can provide an effective response to the problem of the sustainability of welfare systems. For the Italian case, the public redistributive policy in support of occupational welfare has the effect to encourages the collective autonomy to assume public functions of social protection, typical of Welfare State. Occupational welfare system has an exclusive nature: it is funded by the collectivity, but only a few employees can gain the benefits. It will be argued how the social partners, using the space for political action given to them, can negotia te welfare instruments. Through these instruments the right of insiders can be universalizable, precisely because of its power to generate social value, in line with the objectives of the implementation policies of the European Pillar of Social Rights.