Ichino: Di Vittorio was right when he argued at the Constituent Assembly that the strike loses value if it becomes routine

Joseph DiVittorio, general secretary of the CGIL, told the Constituent Assembly that “I strike it is a serious and solemn act, to be used with great parsimony to defend its civil and moral value" and which instead "loses this character and therefore its effectiveness if it becomes a routine, as the Friday transport strike has become today in Italy" . He is absolutely right to say that Peter Ichino, former parliamentarian of the PD and SC and one of the leading Italian labor law experts in an interview with Corriere della Sera who intervenes on the merits of the heated dispute between the Northern League Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, and the secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini. Faced with the steady stream of strikes that opportunistically almost always dominate Friday days, Ichino maintains that "the strike must be able to be called even by a minority union" but that all unions have the duty to respect the law and the users and therefore to say "five days in advance the trains that will travel, the classes of a school where the teachers will be working and so on". Well said, Professor Ichino: you are absolutely right.