Il Government is ready to intervene on strikes. In fact, as early as September, the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Senate should schedule the related bills presented by the former Minister of Labor Maurizio Sacconi and by Senator Pd Pietro Ichino, to avoid the repetition of situations such as those of Fiumicino and Pompeii in the past days.
Both bills, which the government aims to accompany with success in their parliamentary process, aim at better regulate strikes, especially in the transport sector, to prevent users from being victims of even announced strikes, and that minor acronyms can use the weapon of protest as an instrument of internal competition within the unions.
In fact, each of the two proposals includes a consensus threshold to make the protest action valid. In that of Sacconi the threshold in the transport sector is set at 50% of representation. Alternatively, organizations that even in association with each other have at least 20% can resort to a preventive referendum, which however must register at least 30% of workers in favour. In Ichino's proposal, the threshold is 50% for both unions and approval.
“As long as there was only my proposal on the pitch – explains Sacconi – I didn't want to force too much, because I understood that politically the times were not yet ripe. Now that the Democratic Party has also presented its own bill with Ichino, and with Minister Delrio who indicates that of Parliament as the preferential path, I believe that we have the conditions to proceed ".
