This study addresses the treatment granted to the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike (as perhaps the most important expression of workers’ collective rights) by the Italian Constitution and ordinary law. Beginning with a brief presentation of the Italian Constitution and the treatment it serves to labour as an engine of social development and progression, this study then proceeds to analyse how the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike are viewed by the Italian constitutional law and, also, in ordinary law, as a way of materialising the former.