MILANO – The trade unions return to the streets with the issue of the blocking of layoffs which remains at the top of the concerns of workers’ organizations “It is time to unite, not divide and it is not the time for further social fractures”, said the general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini in Turin, one of the three cities together with Bari and Florence where the joint demonstration is underway.
“We are asking here today for an extension of the redundancy block. We are asking the government to pay attention to the world of work,” he added. So the secretary directly called into question the prime minister: unblocking the layoffs from 1 July is “a mistake”.
Ten thousand in Piazza Castello against layoffs: Landini on stage together with the former Embraco
of Mariachiara Giacosa
Work, Bombardieri (Uil) in Bari: “From July 1st there is a risk of a social bomb. The block on layoffs remains until October”
Sbarra recalls Luana: “The government will unblock investments in development and safety instead of layoffs”
by Vleria Strambi
“Security must become not a cost, but an investment and a quality identity card for our country,” he said. “The mobilization that brought us here today – he added – began on May 20 with a day of assembly in all workplaces for safety. Because continuing to have two or three people a day dying means to say that we are in a massacre that we pretend not to talk about or do not want to face “.
“In the pandemic, many activities went on even when the security protocol was not there. There are workers who have lost their lives, to guarantee services and democracy in this country. At that time everyone said that work was essential, in supermarkets and hospitals. At that time we were heroes “, said Landini during his speech in Turin.
Layoffs, the unions return to the streets. Landini: “Let them listen to us or it will be mobilized”
Despite the opening of the government towards an extension of the stop only for some sectors, starting with textiles – particularly suffering – the position of the unions on this point remains firm for an undifferentiated extension for all sectors, concepts also reaffirmed by the UIL secretary Pierpaolo Bombardieri in an interview with Repubblica. Bombardierioggi raises the alarm from the Bari stage: “We must be careful, there are crises and situations that risk exploding, we must prevent this from becoming a social bomb starting from 1 July”, he said. The risk of social tensions “we have been denouncing it for some time – he added – when we do it we are told that we are terrorists, we have, unfortunately or fortunately, the ability to listen to the people who suffer, who see today put their future at risk “.
“Yesterday here in Puglia we registered two further victims, daughters of an aberrant logic, because we don’t just want to start again, we want to recover the profit lost in this year and that profit is recovered on the workers’ skin”, said Bombardieri.
“Today we are sending a strong unified message to the government to the employers’ associations on the need to restart together. We urge the government to urgently open a phase of unitary discussion of listening and dialogue to put work, growth, development and cohesion as a priority. A great discussion to negotiate a new and modern social pact for growth, development and equity “, said the secretary general of the CISL. Luigi Sbarra on the sidelines of the national demonstration of the trade unions in Florence, in Piazza Santa Croce.
“We have been asking for weeks to extend the exit from the layoff lockdown at least until the end of October. We must avoid new layoffs that would add to the million jobs we have lost in the past 15 months. The country’s priority is the country’s priority. to relaunch work and investments, not layoffs “, said the CISL leader.
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