Tuesday's meeting between the sindacati and government it went bad, to the point that Cgil Cisl and Uil threaten one national strike. Irritated by the steadfastness of the workers' representatives, the prime minister, Mario Draghi, left the meeting earlier than expected, officially due to "an institutional commitment that cannot be postponed".
In view of Thursday's Council of Ministers which will give the green light to the manoeuvre, no agreement has therefore been found on how to manage the resources allocated for pensions (600 million), social shock absorbers (three billion) e tax wedge cut (eight billion).
In particular, the unions fear that the tax cut will go solely for the benefit of businesses: on this point, in fact, the government intends to leave Parliament free to decide the distribution of the resources to be allocated to the cut in Irpef and Irap.
The main problem, however, remains that of pensions. The maneuver involves the return of Woman option and the expansion ofSocial bee (expanded to nine other heavy-duty categories), but the majority itself remains divided over how to handle it the pension policy after the expiry of the 100 quotascheduled for December 31st.
The basic clash, however, it is clear: Draghi intends to build only a temporary slide to make the "staircase" less steep, that is, the leap towards the hard and pure Fornero law, with all its rigidities; the unions, on the other hand, are asking for an overall pension reform, which goes beyond the one launched under the Monti government. An inadmissible proposal for the Prime Minister.
"The three billion for the reform of social safety nets are insufficient and there is no choice on the pension reform - he explains Pierpaolo Bombardieri, secretary general of Uil – There are no answers to those who have paid contributions for 41 years, regardless of age”.
This is why “we asked for flexibility when leaving the labor market starting from the age of 62 – he adds Luigi Barra, number one of the Cisl – The goal is also to avoid penalizing generations who have already suffered the economic crisis and the health emergency”.
Finally, “there is the problem of the taxman – he concludes Maurizio Landini, leader of the CGIL – The allocation of eight billion to reduce taxation in our country is very good, but today Irap cannot be cut, which does not only mean making companies pay less, because it is a tax that serves to finance health care. Right now the tax cut needs to go in the direction of raise wages and pensions, to jump-start our country's economy and because the pandemic has caused a wage pandemic. We are the country with the highest wage reduction in Europe”.
CGIL, CISL and UIL let it be known that if the structure of the maneuver remains the current one, in the next few days they will decide by mutual agreement "the most suitable mobilization initiatives". The workers' representatives, however, remained without shores in Parliament: not even the Democratic Party follows them. And what took place on Tuesday is the first rift between the Draghi government and the social forces.
