A life in the union. Entered as a worker Vincent Colla is today one of the union leaders candidates to succeed a Susanna Camusso as general secretary of the CGIL. The opponent of him will be Maurizio Landini, but “I don't consider him a competitor”, Colla clarifies in an interview with Corriere della Sera, despite the latter enjoy the approval of the current secretary.
Definitely shyer than the other candidate, four months before the next CGIL congress called to elect the new number one of the Confederation, Colla is speaking for the first time He would run of his idea of a union, of the foundations on which his secretariat will be based in the event that he succeeds in conquering it.
A CGIL which, reading your words, could be radically different from the current one, a union which will openly confront the challenges of innovation, having "the ambition to govern it by making a pact with companies". Because work defends itself only by facing the new processes and the continuous transformations that underlie them. “If we stand still and wait – Colla explains to Corriere – we only have to manage the deportation processes. And instead we want to discuss industrial policy”.
Il German model as inspiration for a CGIL founded on the experience of "participation", but adapted to Italy, to its networks, to its infrastructures, to 4.0. Without forgetting the macro issues which then inevitably have repercussions on work. Skyrocketing public debt, wealth in the hands of a few, tax evasion as an endogenous evil. Factors, according to Colla, to be taken into consideration “with the aim of doing more justice and more investments and to reduce unbearable inequalities. And the tool can only be the patrimonial“. In fact, billions of euros would derive from it, which could be redistributed on investments and welfare.
Impossible to talk about the appointment of the new secretary of the main Italian trade union, without taking into account his relations with politics. Colla therefore clarifies what he thinks about the work of the Government: “At this stage we have Frolytics good at campaigning, less good at governing", he declares. Words that probably represent confirmation for those who have already divided the candidacies for the general secretariat of the CGIL into two political sections: a candidate close to the Democratic Party (although in reality Colla is close to his fellow citizen Pierluigi Bersani, despite not having followed him in Leu) , the other (Landini) to the M5s. However, Colla dissociates himself: “I conducted a long head-to-head with the Pd…I am jealous of the autonomy of the CGIL, I don't like populism and sales leaders who are always looking for an enemy”.
Who are his role models? “Luciano Lama and his idea of keeping the country. Bruno Trentin for his attention to transformations”.
