The secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, it is truly ineffable. On the one hand it promises to collect signatures for a referendum against the Jobs Act and on the other hand he uses the hated Renzian reform to fire the historic spokesperson of the CGIL, Massimo Gibelli who yesterday commented on the misadventure that befell him as follows: “It doesn't happen to everyone that they get fired from the union. It happened to me. The CGIL did it on July 4th." “Dismissal for justified objective reason” reads the cold dismissal because Landini has decided to abolish the role of spokesperson, given the hunger he has to speak personally with journalists. The dismissal individual for justified objective reasons was already foreseen by law 604 of 1966 but was then taken up and corrected by the Fornero law of 2012 and the infamous (?) Jobs Act of 2015, which the union had strongly opposed.
It will be interesting to see if Landini will have the courage to justify himself in the massive demonstration called in Rome for 7 October but it is unlikely to happen because every time he attacks the Jobs Act many might smile. But there is another problem, no less comical. Faced with the incredible spectacle of the largest Italian union firing workers, the secretary of the Pd, Elly Schlein is silent. Out of solidarity not with the fired worker but with his ally Landini? In reality, Schlein's silence is more of an embarrassment than complicity with Landini. Because the Democratic Party, short of resources after the absurd abolition of public funding wanted by the Letta Government, does not know how to manage 90 furloughed employees who are at risk of dismissal. It would be a paradoxical case of a reverse drive belt. It is no longer the party that gives the line to the union but the union that gives it to the party: even on inconvenient dismissals. If so, Landini deserves to be thrown off the tower first.
