Healthcare Contract and Cgil and Uil Reluctant: The Union's Job Is to Make Agreements That Benefit Workers, But Don't Tell Landini

The masters of Italian trade unionism – from Di Vittorio to Lama and Trentin for the CGIL, from Pastore to Storti, Carniti and Marini for the Cisl and from Giorgio Benvenuto, to Enzo Mattina and to Raffaele Vanni for the Uil – we have always been taught that the task of a good trade unionist is not to make the revolution and promise the sun of the future but, more realistically, to fight to achieve agreements concrete measures that improve the living conditions of workers. But don't remind the secretary of the Cgil, Maurizio Landini who dreams of social revolt and who has always signed few union agreements. When he was head of the metalworkers of Fiom signed only one national contract because he was dragged by the then leader of the Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli and because he needed it as a pass to enter the confederal secretariat of the Cgil. Now history repeats itself and the failure of the Cgil to sign the contract of health workers, in the company of the incomprehensible Uil, is only the latest example. Even Milena Gabanelli, a journalist who goes against the grain Five stars they even wanted to nominate him for the Quirinale, in recent weeks he openly scolded the Cgil to decide to sign the contract after many months to improve the salaries of the nurses and health personnel, but it has gone unheard. The resounding slap she has just received in the referendum on the Jobs Act it doesn't seem to have pushed Landini to the slightest self-criticism but those who lose out are the members of his confederation. Therefore, down from the tower immediately.