(Finance) – The CGIL confirm the negative opinion on the maneuver launched by the Government and “starting from the progress of the extraordinary consultation underway” the general assembly agrees with the proposal put forward in the report of general secretary Maurizio Landini to “continue mobilization in workplaces and territories”. The assembly gave a mandate to the national secretariat to “proclaim entire days of strike with all categories and organize demonstrations throughout the country starting from next November in the forms and methods deemed most appropriate, including the general strike”. The CGIL parliamentarian evaluates “positively” the proposal put forward by Uil to support the unitary demands made by the trade union organizations to the Government and to their employer counterparts by starting a process of common mobilization with demonstrations and hours of strike. “Therefore, on the basis of the mandate received, the national secretariat of the CGIL will confirm to the UIL and the CISL its full availability to meet for a common evaluation of the phase and define a mobilization path with assemblies, demonstrations and strike days of all categories up to general strike”. This is what we read in the agenda approved by the CGIL assembly.
“It is a wrong move which does not protect wages and pensions, which does not introduce the minimum wage, which does not fight tax evasion, which does not tax income and profits, which cuts public health and schools – commented the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, at the end of the general assembly of the confederation –. They should have canceled Fornero, they make that law worse, no one goes to retire anymore, it doesn’t erase the precariousness that particularly affects young people and women, so we really need to continue the mobilization to change it. We agree with the proposal put forward yesterday by Uil to take to the streets, hold demonstrations and call strikes, this is what we are ready to discuss. As far as we are concerned, we are ready to even go on a general strike.”
After the demonstration on 7 October, the general assembly of the CGIL considers “fundamental” the campaign of meetings and the certified extraordinary consultation which took place starting from September and which “will have to continue in the coming weeks to continue the mobilization until the general strike“. A path that confirms the mandate to define the methods of the next stages, in the relationship with CISL and UIL, and to root and extend the relationship with the associations in the territories. “Our demands – we read – must also live in comparison with the institutions starting from the municipal and regional councils”.
The Government’s choices contained in the maneuver – notes the CGIL – are going in the “wrong direction, producing an increase in gaps and inequalities, and the lack of responses to the country’s many social and economic emergencies, in the immediate and prospective future, will only worsen the situation. Thepolitical use that it was decided to make of the Cnel – underlines Corso d’Italia – distorting its function as a third place of discussion and arriving, for the first time, at a majority vote as the first resolution of the new council to support the positions of the Government against the introduction of the minimum wage, ignoring, in fact, the principle of representation in perfect coherence with the method with which the executive has set up the relationship with the trade union organizations in all these months, systematically denying any negotiation and substantive discussion, and always proceeding with unilateral acts”. The CGIL “undertakes to demand a minimum working time below which the contracts cannot go and to continue, against the employer counterparts, a general and coordinated wage dispute, aimed at the renewal of the national contracts and the real defense and increase of the power of purchase of wages”.
The measures announced for the next budget law “beyond the extension of the decontribution – which we have requested and begun to obtain since the Draghi Government, but which limits itself to confirming the pay slips that incomes up to 35 thousand are already receiving (more than an average of 100 euros more as advertised by the Prime Minister) – and the merging of the first two Irpef brackets which, in addition to the regressive effect and the time and deficit financing, will in any case produce almost imperceptible benefits, confirm an absolutely wrong and inadequate line of economic policy”, adds the CGIL. “Therefore, there is no response to the dramatic wage emergency which, in the face of profit-driven inflation, persistent and above the European average – continues the agenda – has decimated the purchasing power of millions of workers and pensioners, who do not it will certainly be recovered with the so-called ‘tricolor quarter’: we need to increase wages through the renewals of national public and private contracts, increase deductions by restoring an authentic fiscal drag mechanism and fully protect the purchasing power of pensions”.
According to confederation led by Maurizio Landini “the appropriations foreseen for the renewal of public contracts they are absolutely insufficient; there are no measures to support renewals in the private sectors; the defunding, and therefore the dismantling with consequent privatization, of public welfare continues, in particular healthcare and education, and there is a lack of resources to finance an extraordinary plan for employment in the PA; no resources are allocated to implement the laws on non-self-sufficiency and disability; the social security system is further worsened, also eliminating the already insufficient forms of exit flexibility, with the full return, in fact, to the Monti/Fornero law and we continue to make money on pensioners by limiting equalization; no action is taken on the housing emergency nor on the side of the surge in mortgages, nor on the side of the increase in the cost of rents, nor on social housing plans; there is nothing on precariousness, which not only is not combated, starting from a stabilization plan in the public sector, but which is actually aimed, as demonstrated by the latest labor decree, at expanding; the distortions in the procurement system are not remedied after the reintroduction of cascade procurement”. Nor – Corso d’Italia points out – is there any investment in the right to education and quality work, “there is no response to the serious social problem of the one million seven hundred thousand young people who do not work or study, and the phenomenon of the flight of intelligence is not being combated; no action is taken to avoid the terrible massacre at work that we witness every day; a vision of women relegated to the tasks of mother and wife continues to be affirmed: providing forms of support only to women with two children is wrong and will not produce effects in terms of improving the quantity and quality of female employment, instead it is necessary to invest in greater services and combat precariousness, involuntary part-time work and the wage gap”.
Furthermore – continues the CGIL – “the Southern Italy risks being crushed between differentiated autonomy, cuts to the Pnrr and recent choices on social and cohesion policies; a regressive fiscal policy is confirmed: from the attack on the principle of progressivity (flat tax and more) to tax evasion which, after the 14 amnesties/amnesties already approved in the first year of the legislature alone, there is even a risk of legalizing through instruments such as the biennial preventive agreement; investments are cut and the absence of any industrial policy capable of resolving the many open corporate crises and of addressing, starting from the resources of the Pnrr, the epochal challenges of the digital/energy transition and ecological conversion is confirmed, guaranteeing growth, quality work, innovation, income redistribution and a clear strategy for the industrial relaunch of our country”.
In essence, for the CGIL, that of the Government is a “totally defeatist maneuver (the declared impact on the 2024 GDP is 0.2%), insufficient and in the name of a return to austerity: it does not provide answers to the country’s many emergencies, making them worse, it does not support growth, on the contrary it compresses internal demand: come on fixed incomes to public spending, to public investments. The last thing that is needed in a context, difficult and full of unknowns, which sees the Italian economy, after the slowdown in the second quarter, also very weak in the third and fourth, and with a real prospect for 2024 of the ‘zero point’, as required by the main national and international agencies”.
Finally, the CGIL believes that “another economic policy, based on the redistributive lever of taxation and on the relaunch of investments, is not only possible, but necessary. We must take the resources where they are: extra profits in all sectors, fight against tax evasion, broadening of the Irpef tax base, large estates, financial and real estate income, high incomes”.