“Don’t surrender to poor and precarious work” – Corriere.it

It is on work that the dignity of the person is measured, because everyone’s life projects are based on work. Sergio Mattarella has chosen the mechatronics district of Reggio Emilia to celebrate May Day, the day of the Republic founded on work, it marks. The head of state underlined the need to ensure adequate salaries and mentioned the Constitution several times, which must be the framework within which to move to plan the future.

On the eve of the Council of Ministers, convened on May 1 to launch a new provision on labor costs, the President of the Republic did not indicate recipes or objectives but limited himself to recalling some of the fundamental passages of the Constitution, asking a question: Have we known , in the 75 years of the Republican Constitution, promote the conditions for making the right to work effective for all?. Mattarella invited to avoid the temptation to surrender to the idea that poor work could exist, indicating the need for a decent minimum threshold and emphasizing instead the importance of forcefully affirming the character of work as the first, elementary, constructive way of redistributing the income produced. Because work, as well as being a right is also a duty, he wrote Einaudithe dignity of an individual who participates in the whole of society is based on that. A mission, warned the head of state, which does not belong only to a few but concerns the whole of society. Everyone’s attention, he insisted, must be placed on the fight against the exploitation of immigrant workers and minors, which constitutes a serious theft of the future for young people, to curb the scourge of accidents at work – the cause of unacceptable human costs – and precariousness, which clashes with the goals of growth and development that are to be pursued also with the Pnrr. It was with the image of the construction site that the president insisted on the importance of the national recovery and resilience plan, with the incomparable opportunity it offers to reduce and fill structural delays, to support growth strategies and to encourage, through innovation, more widespread opportunities.

to the institutions in particular which the president then addressed when he said that the basis of the work, and its quality, must be a constant worry, a commitment which must also involve companies which must have the opportunities to generate value and increase the their productivity in an appropriate ecosystem. Again, the Constitution must be the beacon for achieving effective equality in terms of employment and wages between men and women. Taking his leave from Reggio Emilia, Mattarella wished a happy Labor Day to those who have jobs. To those who create it and to those who defend it. To those who have no work and are looking for it. To young people who are forming. To women, in professional achievement. To the disabled who, in their work, affirm their dignity as people. He also sent a wish to the young people at the Concertone in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome. The music – he concluded – also underlines the connection of hope between the words work and peace.