La Guarantee fee boccia lo strike on Friday 17 November. “The strike, as proclaimed by the trade union confederations (with the exclusion of numerous sectors) cannot be considered, as per the consolidated orientation of the Commission, as a general strike, for the purposes of the application of the regulations which allow exceptions to sector regulations on services public”, reads a note after the meeting with the two unions. The League rejoices but the Uil makes it known that it will not comply with the Authority's indications. For the CGIL and its general secretary Maurizio Landini it is a defeat. In the CGIL of Di Vittorio, Lama and Trentin it would not have happened.
Let's take a step back. CGIL and UIL had proclaimed a general strike to demand wage increases and protest against the Meloni government's maneuver which should have been spread over 5 days, with the climax set for Friday 17 November when they would have stopped the national public transport (buses, metro, trains and planes) and the various sectors of public employment (including healthcare and schools).
The opinion of the Strike Guarantor Authority
The Commission specifies that it does not intend in any way to question the exercise of the right to strike, "but to continue to ensure compliance with the rules that guarantee its reconciliation with the constitutional rights of the person".
What the Commission had already made known is that the strike on 17 November would not take into account the concomitance between the strikes and the limitations imposed by law on the duration of strikes in some sectors. In particular, the Authority asks to exclude from the national strike on 17 November the air transport and environmental hygiene sectors, for which strikes are already planned in the coming days, and to shorten that of the firefighters and local public transport , which by law can only strike for 4 consecutive hours, and railway, which can strike for eight hours.
The unions are not backing down from the strike on Friday 17 November
La Uil transport “is intent on continuing with this protest by not complying with the requested limitations.” Thus the general secretary Claudio Tarlazzi: "The workers' right to strike must be preserved and defended and we do not understand why only the strikes called by the confederal organizations are stopped, while no action was taken for the four strikes proclaimed in recent months by the independent trade unions. Nobody".
The League rejoices
“The Strike Guarantee Commission punishes the capricious Maurizio Landini: the CGIL leader's claim to spend a long weekend on November 17th on the skin of millions of Italians has been rejected. The mobilization cannot last 24 hours: too many years in the service of the Democratic Party to the national government - states a note from the Alloy – they have made the CGIL rusty and has evidently forgotten its ABCs”.
What happens now?
Due are the hypothesis. The unions review the times and methods of the strike based on the Commission's communications, or decide to confirm the general strike with already scheduled times and dates. In the second hypothesis (very probable) a political-social clash would arise which would cause tensions to skyrocket.
