“A union that invites workers to the streets against an increase in payroll that reaches 100 euros, I don’t know if it even exists on Mars”. Matteo Salvini thus liquidates, speaking on Rtl, the criticisms against the government’s Labor decree approved by the council of ministers on May 1st. A sincere amazement that of the Northern League leader and Minister of Transport, who insists on the “folly” of a call to the square to contest the government with these assumptions. «In this decree there are also interventions on safety, on the school-work alternation, on the disabled, on widowers and widows. I would understand if there had been a cut in payroll, but bringing workers to the streets against a government, which may or may not be liked, but puts up to 100 euros more per month in the paycheck is a choice that intrigues me. But the most bitter clash is with the leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini. Indeed, the Minister of Transport announced yesterday morning that he had decided to convene the unions at the ministry in the next few days to discuss the works in progress and safety at work. But the head of the CGIL did not like this either and replied polemically: “I hope not on Sunday at 7pm”. He criticizes that it refers to the government’s decision which had set the CDM on Workers’ Day. And the CGIL secretary insists: “The government hasn’t been discussing with anyone for months and has found the time to summon us on Sunday evening at 7 pm to tell us that the next day it was issuing a decree”.
The number one of the Carroccio concedes the form “we can talk”, while from MIT they let it be known that the date of the call for the comparison will be communicated “well in advance”. Reassurances that are not enough for the CGIL which has confirmed the May mobilization which will start on the 6th from Bologna, and extends the invitation to the streets to all “the political forces are in agreement with our proposals”. And Uil leader Pierpaolo Bombardieri also joins him: “We will go ahead because inequalities do not decrease and we have the responsibility to stimulate a discussion to change the things we are experiencing”.
Unlike Landini, however, the head of Uil is more open to discussions with the minister: «We tell Salvini that we have no problems with dates, we are always ready for discussions on any day of the year, when it comes to interest of working men and women, young people and pensioners”. The same availability also from Luigi Sbarra, general secretary of the CISL: «Minister Salvini’s announcement of a confrontation with the ministry of infrastructure is important. The common goal is to accelerate public investments and those linked to the Pnrr, unblock projects and carry out the major works that the country badly needs”.
