Persuading is better than punishing, but what happens if in the workplace - and especially in schools and company canteens - if workers show up without a vaccination certificate? With an interview with "la Repubblica", the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, caused a scandal because, instead of defending workers who have been vaccinated and demanding maximum safety in the workplace, winked at those who do not have the Green Pass espousing laxity and asking that sanctions be excluded. And, instead of referring the question to the social partners for an update of the safety protocol, he has tried to escape the problem of the Green Pass by asking the government to make a law. An uphill road given that, due to the opposition of the League, the Government would hardly be able to approve a law on the Green Pass while it would be more logical for the social partners to regulate the matter with bilateral agreements at company level.
Landini's exit was not liked even by the Democratic Party which avoided clashing with the secretary of the CGIL but at least for now did not support the proposal for a law on the Green Pass in the workplace. Marco Bentivogli, former leader of the metalworkers of the Cisl and now coordinator of Base Italia, addressed Landini, again in the columns of Repubblica, according to whom the position taken by Landini "is a serious error" because on vaccinations "there are no positions neutral" and "asking not to sanction those who do not respect the law, in fact we accept to sanction those who have a healthy idea of freedom and who know that, alongside their rights, there are duties towards others". "Regulations without sanctions - Bentivogli insists - are worth less than the exhortation to "be good" and we cannot forget that "there are many male and female workers who ask to be able to work without having people who can infect them next to them" and "treating the crafty as the industrious as many politicians do, it facilitates the sly and mortifies the industrious".
