(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 17 - Few resources and measures in some cases inadequate.
The trade unions in a hearing in Parliament attack the Def and relaunch the mobilization.
The Def "is not adequate for the phase the country is going through. The only minimal economic policy intervention to support demand is the reduction of the tax wedge. There is a lack of structural responses to limit prices, support income from work and retirement, including through taxation and to support social cohesion through policies for inclusion".
Thus the CGIL.
Even on pensions "the passing of the Fornero law has been postponed for the umpteenth time. There are no resources. Our opinion can only be negative".
For the Cisl, the cut in the contribution wedge "on medium-low wages in the May-December period" with resources amounting to 3.4 billion is a measure we "are" in favor of but which we nevertheless still consider insufficient to respond to the problem of defending wages against inflation .
Then there is the issue of public contracts to be renewed and that of the tax-drag which cuts real wages".
Finally, Uil believes that "The Def does not have the answers we expected. Employees and pensioners continue to suffer a loss of their purchasing power" due to high inflation and "intervention on the tax wedge is insufficient. The government must do more also by reducing taxes on first and second level contractual increases and by not giving concessions to companies that do not renew contracts".
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