Italy the most precarious country in Europe – Corriere.it

Forty thousand gathered on Saturday under the Arco della Pace in Milan, a much higher number than last week’s demonstration in Bologna, the joint demonstration of the CGIL, CISL and UIL trade unions against the government’s labor policies. So I work at the center of the day which saw demonstrators from all over Italy converge in the Lombard capital. But the first thoughts of the general secretary of the CGIL went to the students: Your struggle, ours were his first words. The right to study – he added – is not guaranteed in our country, and the children of employees find it increasingly difficult to study. Landini added: I think a young man who refuses to work underpaid for 1,000 euros is right, he cannot accept those conditions. The idea that you have to accept any type of job is not good, it’s time to stop it, said the secretary who at the end of the demonstration met the students of the University of Milan who are protesting against high rents, where it was contested by four students who occupied a classroom, linked to Cambiare Rotta who contested it, accusing the union of deceiving the workers and making catwalks. After a brief discussion with the latter too, the secretary said that the protest should be extended to the students, clarifying that the counterparty is not us but the government.

Landini: In Italy the European primacy of precariousness

On the labor front, the secretary pointed the finger at the precariousness that afflicts the Italian system. The level of precariousness that exists in our country is not found in any other European country, Landini affirmed during the march, adding that just yesterday they spoke of a drop in the birth rate, but one of the real reasons for the drop in the birth rate is precisely the fact that there is no work for women, and that there is a precariousness that gives people uncertainty about their future. Harsh comments on what the government is doing in this sense. Since they say they are the new ones, so if they are the new ones they should change the wrong things that exist and discuss them with the union, listen to what young people and women tell them today, the country. They are not. They are campaigning and propaganda. And when we talk about low productivity in our country, we should bear in mind that this is the result of the choice of those who, instead of investing in quality and innovation, have invested in the reduction of rights and job insecurity – notes the secretary -. After 20 years of this culture there are the problems we face before everyone’s eyes and therefore it is absolutely necessary to change.

Fumarola: Intransigent and without downward compromises

We are not here for downward compromises, said the confederal secretary of the CISL Daniela Fumarola, on the stage of the Milan demonstration in place of number one Luigi Sbarra, who is ill with Covid. On this we are and will be intransigent – he adds – strong in our representation and in the ability to sink our hands into the real problems of work and families. only together – she adds – that we can resume the right path, reconnecting the thread of dialogue with the Government, a thread that fell for many months.

Bombers: We want a different country

CGIL, CISL and UIL are not going on strike against the tax wedge as someone keeps saying because we went on general strikes to get it, said the general secretary of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, underlining that CGIL, CISL and UIL are in the streets to ask the government and politics to build a different country, based on stable, dignified and secure work, given that people continue to die. And just Saturday morning a 55-year-old quarryman died of being crushed under a boulder in a quarry in the Garfagnana. The government is also asked to implement a tax reform that takes into account who actually pays taxes and who evades them and to finally discuss a pension reform, which until now has sacrificed young people and women.
We will continue to annoy you and we will continue to remind you that all is not well in this country, continued Bombardieri. We will not stop. And don’t try to scare us or stop us because you never talk about us on TV. Workers and workers continue to send out a cry of alarm and we will fight to the end.
Next appointment, for the South, in Naples next Saturday 20 May.