Twenty days after its conclusion, it is not a gamble to say that 2021 will be remembered as a year of indisputable success for the Government of Mario Draghi, which has become a model for all of Europe due to the effectiveness of its anti-Covid vaccination plan, which has brought GDP growth (+6,3%) back to the levels of the economic miracle of the 50s and 60s and who - with the prime minister's personal authority but also with his commitment to reforms - convinced Europe to grant Italy 200 billion euros to get out of the pandemic crisis.
But 2021 will also be remembered for the incredible own goal that the union – or at least the CGIL , Uil – he inflicted himself by organizing an impromptu general strike against a government that has done a lot on an economic, social and pandemic-fighting level and that has never closed the doors of dialogue with the social partners, without thereby abdicating its leadership role of the country.
It is a pity that the CGIL and the UIL have also sacrificed the unity of action with the Cisl, who intelligently avoided the clash with Draghi, to promote one general strike like that of 16 December which has no plausible foundation, not only because the Government's achievements are there for all to see but because the discussion table on pensions, taxation, labor and industrial policies has never closed .
Pharisaically, the secretary of the CGIL Landini – whose somersaults on the Green Pass remain in recent memory and in the slightly more distant one his reluctance to sign contracts when he was at the helm of the Fiom metalworkers – now claims that the strike is not so much against the Government but against the parties that have held back the premier's willingness to dialogue. Curious argument that would have required a pressing battle against the parties but which does not explain why the conclusion of such confused reasoning translates into a strike against the Government which has done everything possible and impossible to bring the country out of difficulty and which – when he leaves the scene, hopefully as far away as possible – he will be long regretted.
In the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, a threat of a strike was enough to bring down governments, today – on the contrary – an ill-founded general strike risks condemning trade unions to political irrelevance.
But if Landini's own goal is just a new blow to the lack of credibility that the CGIL has today in the country and which once again reveals a lack of vision and foresight, even more astonishing is the short-sighted and extremist line of the little Uil which, since when George Welcome he left the general secretariat in 1992, he totally lost the secular, reformist and autonomist inspiration that has always characterized his history. "This general mobilization - said Benvenuto to the press the other day - would sanction a rupture from which no one would emerge victorious, much less the country". He is wise words that the CGIL and above all the UIL would do well to listen to before making further missteps.
My lady
What a biased article. Economic revival? GDP of over 6% and comparable to the economic miracle of the 60s? whoever writes the article must be a little ignorant given that wages practically doubled then. Workers also bought apartments only with arrears. Now with the ridiculous tax reform, the Irpef benefits on average per worker are between 200 and 900 euros (you can buy a Barbie house). Mind you. All farce
Quite the opposite.. lost a bet to write this article.. there is no other explanation
But I still don't understand a union that largely represents retirees.
It is not true that it was Draghi who obtained the 200 billion from Europe, but it was Conte.