The Government relaunches, the unions think about it but the CGIL is for the no. The negotiation on pensions, which in the event of a positive outcome will enter the budget law that will begin to be voted on next week, is in full swing: today the premier Paolo Gentiloni put two other proposals on the table with the unions to enrich the package on pensions. The first concerns the extension of the exemptions from the five-month increase in the categories defined as burdensome also to old-age pensions (and not only to old-age pensions); the second is the establishment of a fund for potential cost savings with the aim of allowing the extension and implementation of the Ape Sociale.
Gentiloni defined the package of proposals as "very relevant" to accompany the decision on pension adjustments with "a series of targeted interventions. It is right that some effects in the application and in the method of calculating life expectancy are mitigated. All things sacrosanct, of social equity and right in themselves. We ask you to support this package”, added the Prime Minister addressing the unions present at the meeting at Palazzo Chigi. The government then illustrated and handed over a three-fold document to the unions who will now make their own assessments: the CISL has opened, while the CGIL always seems firm in its position, with Susanna Camusso ready to call a general strike on 2 December. The table has been updated to Tuesday 21 November.
"It is an important package of measures in light of the limited resources of the budget", underlined Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan. "The two new aspects added today by President Gentiloni are absolutely important and of no small importance to us, consistent with the approach and method that we had given ourselves in the first part of the agreement on social security", declared the leader of the CISL, Annamaria Furlan, after the table at Palazzo Chigi. Furlan defines the dialogue between the government and the trade unions as "profitable": "Today we are giving some answers to those who would not have any". The CGIL is dissatisfied: "The government has missed the opportunity to give answers on the issue of retirement for young people and women. Giving a pension perspective for the new generations also means addressing the issue of continuity of the system," said Camusso.
