In the square and ready to go back. CGIL and UIL strike and demonstrate, to ask for answers and reforms for the country, the “real” one from which, they attack, politics is increasingly distant: proof of this is how many now no longer go to vote. And this is only the beginning of a “battle”, which starts “today and we will not stop” to bring home results from the government, on work, on pensions and on the tax authorities, assure general secretaries Maurizio Landini and Pierpaolo Bombardieri, from demonstration in Rome, one of five organized in conjunction with the general strike. Here are the sectors at risk, starting from transport, with possible inconveniences.
A general strike again without the CISL and now also without the party flags: in Piazza del Popolo in Rome against a maneuver considered inadequate and unjust there is only the Italian Left with the national secretary Nicola Fratoianni. Seven years ago the same union split, when on 12 December 2014 CGIL and UIL took to the streets against the Jobs act signed by Matteo Renzi and the maneuver of the time. A choice not shared today by the CISL secretary general, Luigi Sbarra, who will be in the streets on Saturday with a demonstration in the name of “responsibility”: the social dialogue with the government “must not be interrupted, because the country needs responsibility, cohesion and participation, not sterile and unproductive conflict “. The judgments from the political front of the center-right are harsh. Among all the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini: “A farce strike against Italy and the workers, the CGIL will help us to rebuild the country rather than block it”. Leu’s deputy Stefano Fassina invites the center-left and the M5s to gather “the anger and the proposals” from the square. As for membership, it is a war of numbers. The unions speak of “high” percentages with an average of 85% in many realities and in some sectors and of a “strong” response from metalworkers (80% in the first aggregate data). In transport they indicate it over 60%. For Confindustria, on the other hand, in the associated companies, pending the final data of the third shift (which ends tomorrow morning at 6), “they are well below 5%”. Bus and metro rides are reduced, but inconveniences in large cities are limited. The unions, however, keep going. “Today there are five full squares” and these “tell us that we are not isolated”, Bombardieri and Landini repeat also from the stage, also replying to the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi. “Did the strike make him sad? Here the workers who risk or do not have a job are sad.”
Five events organized: in Rome, Milan, Bari, Cagliari, Palermo. In the capital, in Piazza del Popolo, the general secretaries Maurizio Landini and Pierpaolo Bombardieri were present.
Taxation, pensions, industrial policies, contrasting relocations and precariousness, health care, non self-sufficiency and school are the critical points of the maneuver, according to Cgil and Uil. For the two confederations “it does not redistribute wealth, it does not reduce inequalities and it does not generate balanced and structural development and stable employment”.
“The distance between the palace of politics and the country is increasing. We instead give voice to the social unease that exists in the country. We need to speak and it would do well for those in Parliament to listen to us”. Thus the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, from the demonstration for the general strike. “Today is the start of a mobilization because we think that the country must be changed, with a tax and pension reform worthy of the name and erasing the precariousness. It is the beginning of a battle”, he says. “If the things we are asking are not done, we will go on strike and go back to the streets because we do not have to answer to any government – concludes Landini -. For us this is not the end of a cycle of demonstrations, for us it is the beginning because we do not give up the idea of a reform of pensions, the tax authorities and the fight against precariousness. Now even more forcefully. The squares of today tell us that we are not isolated “.
“Today there are five squares full. It is strange to say that we do not represent the real country, those who are left behind. We ask the government to make different choices. The country needs answers, which so far are not enough”, says the secretary general of the Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri.
“We are facing a farce strike against Italy and the workers, the CGIL will help us to rebuild the country rather than block it”, comments the leader of the League Matteo Salvini.
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