Forty thousand people in the streets of Milan for the demonstration of CGIL, CISL and UIL against the government's labor policies. This was announced by the unions themselves, underlining how workers and pensioners from all the regions of the North, excluding Emilia Romagna, which last Saturday hosted the similar protest for the Center, converged on today's protest. The next appointment is scheduled for the regions of the South in Naples on Saturday 20 May.
The government "makes mistakes and only propaganda". This was stated by the secretary general of the CGIL Maurizio Landini at the national court for the North of Milan. "Because they say they are the new ones, he says - if they really are, change the wrong things that are there and discuss with the union, listen to what young people are saying to them today and women, the country." "They are not doing it - he insists - and they are campaigning and propaganda". As for the government's measures, in the opinion "to date they are insufficient".
"The government has put in place the famous 600 million - added the secretary general of the CGIL Maurizio Landini - which do not solve the overall problems. After all, today if we want to reason, the problem of housing does not only concern students, it is a more general problem". "Poverty has increased - underlined Landini - and if we go to see what are the reasons for this poverty are precariousness, housing poverty and energy poverty". "There are various levels of intervention that indicate the need for a change in social model."
"The level of precariousness that exists in our country is not present in any other European country," says the CGIL leader. "Just yesterday they spoke of falling birth rates - he added - but one of the real reasons for the falling birth rate is precisely the fact that there is no work for women, and that there is a precariousness that gives uncertainty in people's future".
The demonstrations called by CGIL CISL and UIL in Rome, Milan and Naples "are not of protest but of proposal" says Landini, underlining that "we want to change a social model and a crazy economic model and we want to put the market, profit and income back at the center, but we want to put the person at the center". "We want to put at the center - he added - the right of young people and women to be able to realize themselves and to be free and autonomous people because they have a job and, with dignity, participate in the life of this country, something that today is not possible to do".
Landini to the students, your fight is ours "My first thought goes to the students, their struggle is our struggle." This was stated by the secretary general of the CGIL Maurizio Landini at the beginning of his speech at the Arch of Peace in Milan, where the joint demonstration of CGIL, CISL and UIL for Northern Italy is underway. "The right to study - he added - is not guaranteed in our country, other than merit and the children of employees have more and more difficulty in studying". In the afternoon Landini will meet the students at the University of Milan on the high rents.
Bombers, 'we are in the square for a different country' "CGIL, CISL and UIL are not striking against the tax wedge as some keep saying because we made the general strikes to have it". This was stated by the general secretary of the UIL Pierpaolo Bombardieri explaining that "CGIL CISL and UIL are in the streets to ask the Government and politics to build a different country, based on stable, dignified and secure work, given that people continue to die, and to make a tax reform that takes into account those who actually pay taxes and those who evade, and to finally discuss a pension reform, which until now has sacrificed young people and women".
Smoke, 'intransigent and without compromise downwards "We are not here to compromise on the downside." This was stated by the national secretary of the Cisl Daniela Fumarola, on the stage of the Milan event in place of the number one Luigi Sbarra, sick with Covid. "On this we are and will be intransigent - he adds - strong in our representation and the ability to sink our hands into the real problems of work and families". "It is only together - he adds - that we can resume the right path, reconnecting the thread of dialogue with the Government, a thread that has fallen for long months".
