This morning the maxi-amendment to the Jobs Act will be presented and by the evening the Senate will vote on the confidence in the measure. The premier Matteo Renzi keep going: “I don't fear ambushes – he says -. We are absolutely open to anyone's opinion, the important thing is that we move forward. We improve if there is room for improvement, but the country must change and we will not let ourselves be blocked by vetoes or negative opinions”.
Pier Luigi Bersani he believes that "trust is a stretch", but he also assures that his current "will be loyal". Cesare Damiano, president of the Labor Commission of the Chamber, follows the same line: "We will vote for it, even if in a critical way". The Civatians, on the other hand, climb the barricades and Corradino Mineo thunders: "Renzi is a danger to democracy, he must be stopped".
The Premier hopes to get the first go-ahead for the Jobs Act close to today's appointment in Milan, where a joint press conference with the German chancellor is scheduled Angela Merkel and the French president Francois hollande at the end of the European Jobs Summit.
Meanwhile, yesterday Renzi met with the social partners. After the interview, you spoke of "surprising commonalities" with the sindacati, underlining that the government's amendment to the labor market reform has accepted "shareable suggestions" from the Pd minority on reinstatement for discriminatory and disciplinary dismissals, on the regulation of trade union representation and on an expansion of decentralized and corporate bargaining.
La CGIL confirms his “total dissent on the intervention on article 18 and on the demotion of workers – commented the secretary Susanna Camusso -. Like the CGIL we find all the confirmations of the need for the demonstration on 25 October and to continue the mobilisation".
The positions of the other two confederal trade unions are more conciliatory with the Government, rejecting the hypothesis of demonstrating together with the CGIL. “There are also openings on the part of the Government regarding article 18 – said the deputy secretary general of the Cisl, Annamaria Furlan – There is the positivity of having scheduled meetings. The fact of having a date on the Stability law and meetings with Poletti on work delegation and implementing decrees can represent a turning point in the relationship between the Government and the social partners".
For the leader of Uil, Luigi Angeletti, “if we make a political assessment, today, the Prime Minister has made a symbolically different choice and one of discontinuity with the previous months. Perhaps we are in the presence of a change in the government's attitude towards the social partners, with the discussion on the Stability law and on work delegation”.
An explicit support to Renzi then came from Olivier Blanchard, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund: “I like the spirit of labor reform in Italy – he said on the sidelines of the presentation conference of the World Economic Outlook, the report on the global economy published as part of the autumn work of the Washington DC institute -. The duality of the labor market is the main problem. It really creates two classes of citizens and it is highly undesirable. For this reason, the single contract seems to be the way to go".
Also support from Germany: “Matteo Renzi has the support of the German government on labor reform – sources in Berlin have assured -, there is no quarrel”.
