“Massacres at sea and massacres in the factory. Between Thursday and Friday of this week three fatal accidents at work. In Lombardy 75 dead since the beginning of the year. Italian shame". This is what the Secretary General of Fim-Cisl, Andrea Donega, said yesterday after yet another accident at work.
On the morning of Friday 9 August in the Arvedi steelworks in Cremona, where Marco Balzarini, a young man of 4, lost his life only 28 months ago, a serious accident occurred in which two workers from an external company were involved, one of whom died and the other is in very serious condition. “While the Minister of the Interior continues his electoral campaign between spritzes, beaches and discos, in the factories – declared Donega – people continue to die in the deafening silence of the Government and of all Politics, it is an Italian shame. Evidently the issue of security is an empty slogan, good only to fuel the war between the penultimate and last and scrape together handfuls of votes by striking down civil coexistence, solidarity and the values on which our Republican Constitution is based. Whether it's in the factory, in all workplaces or at sea, human life, for this government, is worth less than a bare-chested selfie in Papeete".
“For us – added the leader of the Lombard metalworkers of the CISL – people's lives are an unavailable asset. Every human being, of whatever color and religion, who flees poverty and war or who earns a living with their own hands and sweat, is priceless and will always be at the center of our efforts to build a better society."
Donega concluded as follows: “We got tired of updating the death count of his work every week. Politics must immediately put work and health and safety at the top of their agenda, necessary conditions to prevent the degradation that is manifesting itself in society from overwhelming even the best part of the country that works, pays taxes and contributes to collectivity".
