(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, JUN 17 - In 2020 there was "an unprecedented loss of jobs". This was recalled by the Papanel video message on the occasion of the 109th International Labor Conference. "With the rush to return to greater economic activity, at the end of the Covid-19 threat, we avoid past fixations on profit, isolation and nationalism, blind consumerism", says the Pope, hoping for "a new future of work based on working conditions. decent and dignified, which comes from collective bargaining, and which promotes the common good ", a work" which is human ".
The Pope calls for particular attention to women, to unprotected workers,for migrants and asks the trade unions to take care not only of pensioners but also of those who do not yet have rights.
On private property he says that it is "a secondary right" compared to that of the universal destination of goods.
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