We are now, December 16 is the day of the general strike. It hadn’t happened since 2014 when they crossed their arms against the Renzi government jobs act. As seven years ago, the CISL does not adhere to the mobilization, considering the strike “Destroy social dialogue”. The initiative of CGIL and UIL, announced last December 6, it was met with some surprise by the government and the prime minister Mario Draghi. Not only that, even the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta he said he was “surprised by the announcement”. Second Matteo Salvini “The CGIL is irresponsible and blocks the country”. After the decision to go to the general strike “we have received very violent attacks, I thank those who have been close to us by sharing our choices and expressing solidarity. The reflection is on how in this country exercising a constitutional right becomes a dangerous weapon, something that splits the country. Allow us to exercise a constitutional right, to go to the streets and pay us for that “day of work lost,” the secretary general of UIL said yesterday. Pierpaolo Bombardieri. The impact of the strike was watered down by the stakes imposed by the Guarantee Authority on the right to strike which on 9 December ordered the exclusion of some sectors including the post office, which was then implemented by the two unions.
CGIL and UIL unions have officially called the strike since the “Budget law and the measures implemented they do not give sufficient answers”To workers and retirees, especially those with the lowest incomes. Yet, argue those who contradict the choice of the unions, the measure is expansive. Of 8 billion allocated for tax cuts 7 billion go to the benefit of workers in the form of remodeling of the personal income tax rates, another billion for self-employed workers. An initially not obvious subdivision. However, if you look up from the tables of the budget law i there are reasons to strike. As the leader of the CGIL explained Maurizio Landini the majority and the party system “are not realizing, and I say this with justifiable reason, of what is the real social situation of the people in our country. In addition to the merit of the budget maneuver, the protest of the unions was triggered by the method used by the government that on the tax reform he would have presented himself to the trade unions with things already done and without prior consultation. In this, however, Landini has repeatedly stressed a distinction between the attitude of the head of the Draghi government “who at least listened to us” and that of the rest of the government and the majority forces.
As explained in detail ilFattoquotidiano.it, as the tax reform is now conceived it does little for the less well-off of the population concentrating the greatest benefits on those who already have medium-high salaries. Remembering a couple of data: the average income in Italy is only 21,660 euros gross per year. Also because, as it has recently remarked the OECD, Italian wages are today 2.9% lower than 30 years ago, the only country among those of the European Union marked by a minus sign. The new position of the president of Confindustria should be noted on the subject Carlo Bonomi. Italian companies have received subsidies in various forms for a total of 115 billion euros in recent years, another 35 billion will come thanks to the NRP.
The leader of the industrialists, who however fights against “Subsidistan”, has so far argued that any increases in the paycheck agreed upon renewal of collective agreements could have been justified only in relation to theinflation (in particular the so-called “Programmed”, set annually by the government and regularly lower than the official one). But now that inflation is back, Bonomi says it is “It is instrumental to use inflation to ask for wage increases”, explaining that workers have already been made “safe” in the face of rising prices with the latest renewals. After having branded the hypothesis of a law against companies that receive public aid and then move their production abroad as “ideologically anti-business”, the president of Confindustria made it known that this general strike “It saddens him a lot”.
More generally, CGIL and UIL complain about the government’s attitude scarcely inclined to solidarity logics and equity. It is no coincidence that the slogan under which the strike is called is “Together for justice“. The example of the barrage against the Basic income or, conversely, the removal of any income constraint to benefit from the bonus 110% for the renovation of villas and buildings. A case particularly emblematic, the fierce opposition to the timid attempt by the Prime Minister to introduce a criterion of solidarity in the management of increases in electricity and gas bills. Draghi had not proposed any increase, nor “patrimonial” but simply the idea of postponing for a year the reduction of taxes for incomes above 75 thousand euros. The money saved, around 300 million euros, would help alleviate. The measure was shot in a few hours by the Renzians of Italy Viva who have joined forces with the Lega and Forza Italia. The money for the bills was then found in another way, subtracting it from other expense items. The contribution proposed by Draghi was modest but the principle underlying the logic according to cuthose who are better help those who are worse off, indigestible result approach a Matteo Renzi and partners.
Spi Cgil Lombardia, ie the group that brings together retirees of the union, also draws attention to h retirement prospects for younger workers and on insufficient funding for public health, grappling with the management of the pandemic. The OECD has calculated that those who start working in Italy today will not be able to retire before 71 years of age, due to the aging of the population but also for the mechanism used in Italy that links the retirement age to life expectancy. Another issue of concern is the progressive increase in precariousness, a phenomenon highlighted by all the latest surveys on the labor market where jobs increase but are increasingly short term. It is worth noting the participation in the strike of the bicycle messengers of Just Eat. The riders are also threatening an “encore” on Christmas Eve if the company does not accept their requests, which mainly concern safety at work.