I’ve never seen a union protesting wage increases – Corriere.it

«A union announcing a strike against the increase in the wages of workers and workers I have never heard in the history of man. I know unions that protest when wages are frozen.’ This was stated by the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini, on the sidelines of the opening of Samoter, in Verona. “However – he added – when there is a government that puts up to one hundred euros more a month in the paycheck for the whole of 2023 and a union and a party of the so-called left, they say, we will oppose this decree, eh, it is really surreal.”

«Next goal the thirteenth highest»

“The work decree of May 1st is the beginning of a path and not the end of a path – continued Salvini – the tax reduction of thirteenth month payments is a goal that we have set ourselves as well as the final one on pensions, within the legislature, of quota Fourty one. It is a goal as well as the flat tax not only for self-employed workers but also for workers and employees ». «It remains a goal – added Salvini -, we still have four and a half years of work left so I don’t expect to do everything within the first six months. If in addition to this impressive salary increase it were also possible to intervene on the thirteenth salary, I would be happy». For Salvini, however, we must also look at the international situation «with American banks at risk and with inflation rising again because the price of oil is rising again, things that do not depend on us, and therefore do not allow me today the first of May to say what we will be able to do in December».