Landini: “The cut in basic income is madness. You have to take the money from profits and evasion”

“If tomorrow’s news is confirmed, the idea that at a time when poverty is on the increase, the basic income is being cut seems madness to us,” said the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, on the eve of the meeting convened between the government and trade unions at Palazzo Chigi. «Today – adds Landini – is the time to invest in work, in solidarity and above all to go and get the money where it is, where the profits were made, where there is tax evasion and not continue to think that workers employees and pensioners are ATMs and they also pay for those who evade taxes and who don’t pay».

On May Day: “We go to the meetings, we will evaluate the results”

“There is a wage emergency, so wages need to be increased very substantially. We need to carry out a real tax reform that affects financial income and real estate income that reduces the taxation of employees and we need to fight precariousness, which I think the government is not doing,” he said again. «We will tell the government these things – Landini concluded -, we will naturally evaluate what they tell us. I would like to remind everyone that we have planned not only May 1st but also three major demonstrations in May, in Bologna on the 6th, in Milan on the 13th and in Naples on the 20th, demonstrations that aim to focus on the need for a change in economic policies and social. We want fair taxes, more wages, public health worthy of the name and it’s time to say enough to precariousness because we want to stop the young people of our country being forced to go abroad and not being able to stay here to use the their intelligence.”