Cisl in the square. Monday table by Draghi on pensions – Photos

(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 18 – After the general strike of CGIL and UIL, the CISL takes to the streets today alone, with a demonstration on Saturday, in the name of “responsibility” and cohesion. Not the “sterile conflict”. On Monday afternoon, all three unions will be at Palazzo Chigi for the meeting with the government and Prime Minister Mario Draghi on pensions. A first table that they ask for starts the reform process of the Fornero law. From piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome, under the slogan “For development, for work, for social cohesion. Responsibility in the streets”, the general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, returns to distance himself from the choice of CGIL and UIL on the strike general, he says no to the “political and trade union populism” with which reforms have never been made or conditions for workers have never been improved. And relaunches his message: “The country needs cohesion and unity. Not sterile conflict. This is not the time when we can be satisfied with being against”. A square, therefore, not against – he repeats – but to enhance the results already achieved on the maneuver – on resources for health, social safety nets, bills, tax relief for incomes up to 35 thousand euros and the increase in no tax area for pensioners – and to further improve it during the parliamentary process, Sbarra remarked, acknowledging Prime Minister Draghi that he “proved capable of listening, he has pledged to open the tables on the crucial issues of the tax authorities and pensions”. The need is to carry on discussion and dialogue, to indicate “the new priorities” of the social agenda, to build a new development model and to affirm the profile of “a responsible, constructive, participatory trade union that wants to stay inside the processes of change “. Trade union unity? With CGIL and UIL, “the rupture is profound”, now “there is a lot of clarity to be done on the contents and on the model of trade union that is needed at this stage in our country”. However, the “objectives remain” of the unitary platforms. Starting with pensions. On this, the unions ask to start discussions to reform the Fornero law and introduce flexibility in leaving from the age of 62 or with 41 years of contributions. That “is enough to enjoy the sacrosanct right to a pension”, which is not a luxury or a privilege, but a fundamental right, remarks Sbarra from the stage. They ask to build a guarantee pension for young people “trapped between pure contributions and precarious and discontinuous careers” and adequate solutions for women, recognizing an extra year of contributions for each child, to make the social Ape structural and widen the fourteenth to retirees. They say no to a possible hypothesis of contribution recalculation of the pension (for ‘mixed’ cases), which would produce a cut of up to more than 30% of the gross allowance, notes the CGIL with an analysis by the Social Security Observatory. The meeting on Monday, confederal secretary Roberto Ghiselli affirms, will be an opportunity “to understand if there is actually the will on the part of the government to initiate a real confrontation with the trade union and not just listening, with the aim of overcome the rigidity of the Fornero law “. (HANDLE).