It will be a Monday of disruption for local public transport, but only for 4 hours, instead of the 24 hours announced. Yesterday the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, signed the demand letter to reduce the strike which will only take place from the 9 13. Furthermore, not all the unions involved proposed folding their arms all day. MIT said in a note. The strike was called by the grassroots unions, therefore not by CGIL and UIL, promoters of the stop on November 17th. The MIT wanted to clarify that the right to strike is sacrosanct, and hoped for an ever greater involvement of all trade unions by companies with the aim of resolving disputes.
Salvini: reduce inconvenience for citizens
At the same time, however, Matteo Salvini is also determined to reduce the inconvenience for citizens as much as possible, also in light of unrest that has now become very frequent, and which particularly insistently affects the transport sector. Too often strikes create complications right on the last day before the weekend or at the beginning of the working week, he pointed out.
The general strike in the North
Meanwhile it is general strike of CGIL and UIL on the maneuver arrived in Northern Italy. Workers from the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino-Alto Adige, Valle d'Aosta and Veneto crossed their arms for eight hours or for the entire shift. Excluded from the mobilization were local public transport and the public sector workers who went on strike on 17 November.
After the strikes and demonstrations of 17 and 20 November, the protest by CGIL and UIL "Enough is enough!" to raise wages, extend rights and to oppose the budget law, it will continue with strikes and demonstrations on November 27th in Sardinia and December XNUMXst in the southern regions. The general secretary of Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, participated in the Brescia demonstration. The general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini was in the square in Turin.
The government-union meeting has been postponed until Tuesday
“The postponement of the government meeting until Tuesday is an act of common sense, but it seems a little late to me. We will see what the government has to tell us, until now there has been no possibility of discussion and negotiation", said the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, at the Turin procession. “If the government was capable of listening to the country it should open serious negotiations and change a wrong law and initiate the reforms we need” he added.
“The choices the government is making are wrong, they are leading our country to crash. We will not be intimidated, we will continue with our mobilization,” said Landini. “I believe that the strongest response is also coming today from the very strong participation with very high membership in all 40 locations. Democracy and rights are defended by practicing them”.
From Brescia, the general secretary of Uil Pierpaolo Bombardieri he argued that “we continue to try to prevent a right recognized by the Constitution. There can't be anyone who says "it can't be done" if we act within the law. Today in Brescia is a request to the government to listen to those who are in difficulty and those who disagree". According to the organizers, 15 thousand people are present in the Lombard city.
Cub Trasporti: “From threats to facts, a serious act from Salvini”
“Salvini moves from threats to facts. This despite the total closure with respect to demands for wages, rights, safety, against privatizations". Thus the national secretary of Cub Trasporti, Antonio Amoroso, who defined the injunction as "a very serious act for a strike called in compliance with the rules". The accusation against Salvini is of "wanting to steal workers' freedom to strike". The Cub and the other grassroots unions "will evaluate whether to reschedule the abstention to another date by starting a campaign to raise awareness in the country regarding the serious attack on democratic rights".
