The pact between trade unions and Confindustria proposed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi «was born of a chemistry at that time, I did not know the contents of the President’s speech just as he did not know what I would have said. I am not surprised, I believe that President Draghi has thrown his heart over the obstacle ». This was said by the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, to the microphones of ‘Half an hour more’ on Rai3. He then added that “Draghi did what the country needed in three months, from the vaccination plan to the rewriting of the first 80 pages of the PNRR”.
However, «Confindustria is not a candidate to form a party» much less to cover a political void together with Draghi: «If you have heard my report, there is a passage in which I say we respect parties and institutions. What we have highlighted is that the Draghi government has done the things the country needed on 3 essential points: the vaccination plan, has rewritten the first 80 pages of the PNRR and brought back that international credibility of Italy in Europe, G20 and Born”.
Bonomi then reiterated that he “wanted to make it clear that there is a historic occasion for the country. We have the feeling that, due to the administrative elections process, the game of flags has begun on many important issues, we do not want this game to jeopardize what the country has been waiting for for 30 years, reforms ». Among the reforms mentioned by Bonomi are social safety nets and active policies, taxation, social security and competition: “We can no longer allow there to be a slowdown in the process and we have made commitments with the EU.”
The president of Confindustria then once again extended his hand to the unions: “We have the same position, we are to strengthen bargaining because it guarantees everyone, and the example comes from Ita”. In countries where the minimum wage has been introduced, “the tendency of companies is to leave collective bargaining and this is not in the interest of the workers. We must go and hit the pirate contracts, which are made by those who have no representation and dump wages. There we must work together ».