(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 31 - With inflation which, according to preliminary Istat estimates, "jumps in August to 8.4% on an annual basis, gossip is not needed. So it does not hold up. The Aiuti bis decree puts resources inadequate for workers and retired people: urgent action is needed immediately to protect already impoverished wages and pensions ".
This was stated by the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini.
To this picture, he continues, "we must add the economic and social effects of the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, which are already causing enormous difficulties for the production system and therefore for work and employment, as well as for people".
So "it is an extraordinary moment - concludes Landini - and we must respond with extraordinary tools, exactly as we did during the pandemic and as we have been asking the Government for months", insists Landini.
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