The letter sent by Elsa Fornero to La Stampa «I haven’t had time to read it yet. For sure I would like one point to be clear: yesterday with the government we started with young people and from giving a future to this country. Putting young people at the center means first of all canceling, starting from our country, forms of precarious work ». This was stated by the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, at the end of the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the general secretaries of Ituc, Tuac, Ces, CGIL, Cisl, Uil in the context of the G20.
Dear Landini, on pensions you learn from Lama: it is with unpopular choices that children are helped
elsa fornero
“I would like everyone to reflect on this point – he continued – this recovery that we are experiencing has resulted in jobs in recent months, if you put them together with temporary contracts, temporary work and intermittent work, we are talking about something like a million jobs all precarious and with very limited durations. This is the theme. We want to change this and we started from there. If you want to give a future to the country and to young people there must be a non-precarious job. Having a non-precarious job also means having a pension. We are discussing this and this is our claim ”, he concluded.
“I have another commitment, goodbye”. So Draghi keeps the point on pensions
Alessandro Barbera
In his letter to Landini, Fornero talks about the condition of young people who, with “one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe” are “often” forced “to look elsewhere for opportunities. What does it have to do with the exit from 100 and with the resumption of a path to raise the retirement age? Impossible – he explains – not to see the failure of an economic pact between generations. Getting out of 100 with some gradualness and respecting the fairness that requires you to treat at least the most unfortunate ones better is possible. A new step back would still be a short-sighted choice of decline. All the data show growing gaps between generations but politics seems only marginally interested in this devastating picture ”.
According to the former minister, “it was a mistake to have reduced the welfare system almost only to the pension system. Similarly, it was improper to use women’s early retirement as a substitute for care services, thus condemning them to poverty if not assisted by the husband’s ‘generosity’ or by a survivor’s pension; or industrial policy tools to restructure companies, especially large ones. A retrospective look shows measures that range from real insanity (baby pensions) to myopia (the measures induced by the defense of ‘acquired rights’ in their many variants), to yielding to pressures and influences of categories closer to the political system ( with consequent privileges). The country as a whole has found all these decisions convenient in the short term, without reflecting on the aging of the population; on the lack of growth and the consequent overall impoverishment ».