CGIL and UIL consider the maneuver "unsatisfactory" and have decided to proclaim an 8-hour general strike for Thursday 16 December with a national demonstration in Rome.
"Last Friday, the CGIL, and tonight, the UIL - reads a note - brought together their individual statutory bodies for an assessment of the economic maneuver launched by the Government. While appreciating the effort and commitment of Premier Draghi and the its Executive, the maneuver was considered unsatisfactory by both trade unions, in particular on the front of the tax, pensions, school, industrial policies and the fight against relocation, the fight against job insecurity, especially of young people and women, of non self-sufficiency, all the more in light of the resources available at this stage, which would have allowed a more effective redistribution of wealth, to reduce inequalities and to generate balanced and structural development and stable employment ". "Therefore, having received from their respective bodies the full mandate to give continuity to the mobilization, we read, the national confederal Secretariats of CGIL and UIL have proclaimed an 8-hour general strike for next December 16, with a national demonstration in Rome and with the simultaneous carrying out of similar and interconnected interregional initiatives in 4 other cities ". The general secretaries of CGIL and UIL, Maurizio Landini and PierPaolo Bombardieri, will speak from the demonstration in Rome, which will take place in Piazza del Popolo.with a national demonstration in Rome and with the simultaneous carrying out of similar and interconnected interregional initiatives in 4 other cities. "The general secretaries of CGIL and UIL, Maurizio Landini and PierPaolo Bombardieri, will speak at the demonstration in Rome, which will take place in Piazza del Popolo.with a national demonstration in Rome and with the simultaneous carrying out of similar and interconnected interregional initiatives in 4 other cities. "The general secretaries of CGIL and UIL, Maurizio Landini and PierPaolo Bombardieri, will speak at the demonstration in Rome, which will take place in Piazza del Popolo.