Europe, once again, at the center of Labor Day: exactly 20 years after the national gathering of confederals in Gorizia, a border city, tomorrow the unions will be back in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in Central Europe. The appointment is at 10 in Monfalcone (Gorizia), in Piazza della Repubblica.
But if on May 1st 2004 the historic eastward enlargement of the Union was celebrated, today the world of work looks to Europe, close to the electoral deadline, asking it to play a greater role in the reconstruction of a future characterized by peace and social justice . “Let’s build together a Europe of peace, work and social justice” is the slogan chosen by CGIL, CISL and UIL to celebrate May 1st in a city “not only on the border – explain the regional secretariats – but also a symbol, with its construction sites, the demographic fabric and the tensions, challenges, difficulties and contradictions that our economic, employment and social fabric has to deal with today. Challenges and difficulties that also concern security, in a country and a region that also This year they are seeing an increase in the number of accidents and deaths at work.” The latest in chronological order is the death of a worker, today in Fiume Veneto (Pordenone), hit by a crane and falling.
There are no marches planned tomorrow. The “parallel” parade organized by the Bangladeshi community has also been cancelled: the foreign contract workers will join their colleagues in Piazza della Repubblica. A sign of convergence on labor issues, in a city where integration sometimes struggles to take off, as demonstrated, for example, by the ongoing disputes between the Municipality and Islamic cultural centers for the use of places of worship.
The speeches of the general secretaries will be concentrated between 12 and 1 pm. Pierluigi Bombardieri (Uil) will speak first, followed by Luigi Sbarra (CISL). Closing will be the leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini.
In the background remains the May 1st decree wanted by the government and presented to the unions just yesterday in Rome.
“We need more industrial policies and more structural interventions, because the bonuses then end, and we have to go and find the money”, says Bombardieri, commenting on the hiring incentives announced by the executive. “I give the government package a four and a half,” he adds. Sbarra calls for “investing more in job security” and “a new incomes policy that helps increase workers’ wages”. Yesterday Landini, busy in Palermo, did not participate in the meeting.
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