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“Italy heals itself with work”: here are all the events of May Day

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ROME. For the second consecutive year, the unions will not be able to celebrate May Day as it has always been, but the commitment to bring work to the center of attention is the same, especially at a time when employment has been heavily penalized by the pandemic. .

CGIL, CISL and UIL have chosen to celebrate May 1st by organizing, as a unit, three distinct trade union events that will take place at some symbolic places in the world of work in our country. The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, will be at the Ast steel plant in Terni; the general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, will be at the Castelli hospital in Fontana di Papa in the province of Rome; the general secretary of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, will be in front of the Amazon headquarters in Passo Corese, in the province of Rieti. The Ugl has organized an «itinerant» Labor Day with 30 stages from North to South Italy, which began on 9 April. And Confsal organized the online event “A May Day for Recovery and Rebirth”, to celebrate a day in a constructive way together with all the Federations.

Here are all the appointments in detail:

“Italy Heals itself with work” is the slogan chosen by the confederations for this year’s Labor Day to “strongly reaffirm that a safe restart for our country is possible”. “In a difficult phase in the life of the country, in which there is a need to restart in the name of unity, responsibility and social cohesion – explain Cgil, Cisl and Uil in a unitary note -: we want to reiterate the value of centrality together of work, to rebuild our country on a new basis and face the serious economic and social consequences of the pandemic with fairness and solidarity. 2021 continues to be hit by the health emergency that already put everyone to the test last year. However, something is changing with the vaccination campaign which also represents the symbol of hope that will allow us to be able to get out of this calamity. Starting again in total safety, aware that work and the vaccine are the only possible medicine to guarantee a better future ».

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As is traditional, in agreement with Rai, the three confederations have defined two appointments within the Rai 3 schedule: from 12.15 to 13.00 an extraordinary edition of TG3 dedicated to the Labor Day, with the intervention by Landini, Sbarra and Bombardieri; from 16.35 to 19 and from 20 to midnight, live the extraordinary edition of the May Day Concert conducted by Ambra Angiolini and Stefano Fresi.

Meanwhile, with the motto “Work changes us too!”, The national tour of theUgl: 30 stages from North to South Italy to claim the centrality of work by going to meet, on board a bus, workers in the squares, factories and production realities of the whole country. The goal was to reach its members, managers and all workers in the individual territories who, in this delicate phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, cannot physically go to Rome to celebrate May Day together.

The first appointment was in Rome and Naples and then continued along the Italian provinces. The Ugl tour ends tomorrow in Milan. “We have decided to spend a” different “May Day, in the name of meeting the workers in the squares, with the aim of giving voice to their concerns, collecting the requests and needs coming from the various Italian regions”, declares Paolo Capone, general secretary of the Ugl. There Confsal instead promotes an event on Facebook. “The economic crisis that the country is facing, aggravated by the health emergency, will make Labor Day an even more important opportunity for reflection and discussion on the proposals necessary to restart Italy”, explains the General Confederation of Autonomous Workers. who organized the event «A May Day for Recovery and Rebirth».

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