(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Meeting at Palazzo Chigi between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the ministers with the trade unions to “set work” on institutional reforms, fiscal delegation, inflation, pensions, job security and productivity. The goal is then the launch or continuation of specific tables with the ministries concerned. For the trade unions, CGIL, CISL, UIL, Ugl and Confsal participate, with the general secretaries Maurizio Landini, Luigi Sbarra, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, Paolo Capone and Angelo Raffaele Margiotta.
“Today’s appointment is part of the process of discussion and dialogue” che government “has decided to establish a necessary and appropriate discussion with the social partners to give us a more cadenced organization of work and for a structured and I hope profitable dialogue, in compliance with the priorities that the country has and that the government has decided to given and their respective positions”. Thus, according to what is learned, the premier to the unions. “I am convinced that an advantage can come from dialogue and comparison, even when the positions are distant, when, like today, people are particularly competent”.
“I want to set up a government observatory at Palazzo Chigi on the issue of purchasing power: wages, price monitoring and pricing policy, monitoring the implementation and effects of the measures that we have introduced and which perhaps have not given the expected results, such as for example the reduction of VAT on products for early childhood”, said, again according to what is learned the president of the Counsel. “This is the most relevant theme, from which the others also depart. I will try to be present in first person so that together we can unravel the crux of this skein”.
On the PNRR: “it is one of the main issues, a great opportunity. The resources must reach the ground to be spent on more strategic things. The debate must not be ideological, but pragmatic”.
Pensions chapter. “We will work on strengthening the social security system, with particular regard to future pensions. We must guarantee the stability of the system and avoid the emergence of a social bomb in the coming decades”, said the premier at the table with the unions.
Tax reform: “Let’s imagine including a series of deductions for employees as well, including the one on transport. Furthermore, we want to make the issue of fringe benefits and the tax relief of the employer’s contribution structural for workers who have a child. The The falling birth rate is another major economic issue, which if not addressed in time will make all the other measures much less effective. It is useless to think about how to optimize the social security system if we have fewer and fewer people of working age”. Thus, according to what is learned, the premier Giorgia Meloni to the unions.
“The objective of the tax delegation – Meloni explains – is the overall reform of the system, with a progressive reduction of the Irpef rates to lower the tax burden. This means, in our idea, significantly expanding the lowest bracket to include many more workers”.
“The Prime Minister illustrated a series of topics on which he wants to open a discussion that he defines as structured. We have given our willingness to discuss, we come from an important mobilization that has asked for a change in the Government’s choices on some topics discussed today. We appreciated the willingness to have a structured confrontation. However, we have not discussed the merits”. He said it the leader of Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, at the end of the meeting at Palazzo Chialready “For us, the first answer to give concerns wages which have lost 10% – he added – we have recalled that there is the issue of precariousness and that we are dissatisfied with the issue of safety at work. Too many people continue to die. And furthermore there are the issues of taxation and pensions”.
“On the one hand, we consider this call to be important, which took place thanks to our mobilization, but to date there are no results. As far as we are concerned, we need to continue the mobilization in the country”. This was stated by the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, at the end of the meeting at Palazzo Chigi. “We have already decided together with many associations that on June 24 there will be a national demonstration in Rome on health and safety at work, which is a central theme – he added – we will decide everything that is necessary without excluding any initiative“
“It was an important meeting, which rewards the efforts of two months of mobilization in which we asked to reconnect the thread of social dialogue”. This is what the general secretary of the CISL declared, Luigi Sbarra, at the end of the discussion with the Government. “Today the interlocution restarts – he said – the Government has informed us that in the next few hours it will set up a path of dialogue with thematic tables on pensions, incomes policy, health and safety, healthcare, employment, investment acceleration. Sbarra added that “this is the moment for a close and responsible confrontation, uncompromising on the merits and far from any form of populism. The CISL will be at each of these meetings to negotiate concrete advances for workers and retirees. Then, as is obvious, we will evaluate the fruits of the comparison without discounts and we will know how to adjust accordingly. These are decisive months for the future country”.