Landini is the only union leader who incredibly never fights to raise wages: why? For four reasons

Maurizio Landini he is the only union leader who never fights to raise the wages. It's incredible but that's how it is. Raising wages should be the main concern of any trade unionist worth his salt, but Landini has other things on his mind. He fights for the minimum wage but not to improve all Italian wages which are lower than the European average and which, as the Governor of the Bank of Italy reminded the ABI assembly, Fabio Panetta, “it is inevitable that they will increase to recover purchasing power” eroded by inflation. But Landini doesn't deal with it. Why? The paper, who yesterday sent him to the dock, puts forward various hypotheses. First: Landini is not fighting for a general improvement in wages because the CGIL it's made more than pensioners than employees and is therefore less interested in opening major battles in favor of wage earners. Second: Landini had entrusted the improvement of wages not to union bargaining but to the reduction of tax wedge and contributory which in truth the last governments have provided, displacing the leader of the CGIL. Third: Landini focuses on the minimum wage by law but not through union bargaining which concerns all wages and snubs decentralized bargaining which could open up room for improvement in wages more than national bargaining. Fourth: Landini has long been more interested in political themes that unions perhaps to reserve a place as political leader when his mandate as general secretary of the CGIL expires in two years and for this reason he is involved in referendums on the Jobs Act or on Differentiated Autonomy. “Someone – claims the editor of Il Foglio, Claudio Cerasa – should start asking Landini for the bill”. He is absolutely right and in the meantime the secretary of the CGIL ends up straight down the tower.