Four-hour strike proclaimed this morning by the RSU of the Naval Repairs in the port of Genoa against the provisions on pensions envisaged by the government. After the assembly at the beginning of the shift, the workers blocked the passage of the Graces, in the city center. It is not excluded that in the next few hours, similar mobilizations will be decided in other engineering sectors. “You cannot work until the age of 67 or for at least 43 years of your life in shipyards, steel mills, metalworking workshops and all those workplaces where the activities are strenuous, burdensome and with a high risk of injury”, says a flyer.
“This morning is a spontaneous strike by the Naval Repairs, whose workers feel particularly the issue of pensions – the Genoese secretary of Fiom CGIL, Stefano Bonazzi explains to the agency – it goes without saying that as Fiom we are very clear that reactions are needed for change the intentions of the government. I do not know if this will be the first in a long series of strikes, but I do not think we can afford to stop here and today’s will not be an isolated case, for the subject itself and for what it has represented the Fornero reform for metalworkers and not only. There must be answers and it cannot be the three hours of strike made three years ago against the Fornero reform “.
The strike then turned into a procession, which affected via Gramsci for the whole morning. Over a hundred demonstrators, after blocking the passage of the Graces, paralyzed the traffic in Piazza Cavour for about twenty minutes, including the exit of the flyover. He then moved in procession towards the maritime station and then returned to Piazza Cavour. At noon, the four-hour spontaneous strike against the pension reform will stop and the workers will be back on duty. But Fiom intends to organize more structured protests in the coming days.
Meanwhile, the general secretary of Uil Pensionati also intervenes in Genoa on the subject of pensions, on the sidelines of a meeting organized by the union. “When we talk about young people _ he explains _ the Draghi Government tells us that ‘there is time’, then they say that it is the fault of the union that does not think about young people, let’s see what the Government’s proposals are for young people, who need a pension guarantee to supplement the scarce pensions that there will be in the future “. According to Barbagallo, the government “tries to put young people against the elderly” instead “we need to make a great deal for the country, but we need to discuss, not to have liberal attitudes, which take us back years to the law of the market. there is productive and active seniority, which is why we are talking about flexibility in exit “.
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