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September 18, 2020 "Politics should be less in the palaces of power and on social media and more in the streets and in the workplace. We ask the government to change this country, to restart from work. The great tragedy we have gone through needs concrete answers . So we ask the government to change the policy choices to change this country starting with work, the dignity of work and workers. If no answers arrive, the mobilization continues ". It is the Uil leader, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, on the sidelines of the unitary demonstration underway in Rome, with Cgil and Cisl and simultaneously with 23 other Italian squares, to ask the executive for a change of pace after the lockdown. But it is not yet time for a general strike: "the general strike is a tool, not a goal.In the meantime, the mobilization will go on in the workplace, in the squares and in the territories to explain what is happening ", he says.



Patuanelli?

We turned to 'Who has seen it'

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We haven't met 

Minister Patuanelli on corporate crises for a long time, so much so that we have turned to 'Who has seen him?'" Said the general secretary of the UIL.

Bombardieri then specified that the scheduled meeting with the Minister of Economic Development should be held "next week".


Bombardieri: "To those who speak of revolution we say that if they force us, we will make the revolution, restoring dignity to work and workers" #Ripartiredallavoro pic.twitter.com/svuBYYGDJZ

- Uil Nazionale (@UILofficial) September 18, 2020


Landini: "Government must discuss with social partners"

On the same wavelength, the secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, in Naples for the day of national unified mobilization of the unions: "It is necessary that the Government discuss with the social partners, starting with the trade unions, on how they spend European money and how to change our development model, making those reforms that we have been waiting for for years and that today we think there are the conditions to be able to do them "he says. "Starting over from work means starting over from rights, from the quality of work, from the fight against precariousness and to have a general project of which the South is not simply helping a part of the country, but is the condition for the country to be relaunched and to be able to build a Europe of work and society ", added Landini.



Landini: "Parliament confirms the blocking of layoffs"

"It is important that Parliament confirms the blocking of layoffs" explains Landini, speaking to journalists in Naples. The secretary recalls that, on this issue, we are discussing in these hours and that "there are also requests, starting from Confindustria, to question the blocking of layoffs". Confirming it would mean, "for this year, having the shock absorbers and also having the time in these weeks to discuss a new system of social shock absorbers because the problem of the end of the block is a problem if nothing is done in the meantime".



In the meantime, he explains, "we need to start the investments and make a reform of the social safety nets that allows to link training, working hours, which encourages the use of solidarity contracts and other forms and then of course in the immediate future. there is the problem of restarting investments to ensure that there is no total block of activities ". 



Landini to Confindustria: "The road taken only leads to a clash"

"I hope that Confindustria understands that this is a path that leads only to a confrontation that we do not need," said the general secretary of the CGIL. "On the contrary, it would be useful if we asked the Government for a real tax reform, - continues Landini - and at this stage it would be useful to have a measure that would tax the increases in national contracts, we are talking about more than 10 million public and private people this year. and the next will be grappling with the contract. Doing this would also mean relaunching consumption in the country ".



"The position held so far by Confindustria has been to block the renewal of contracts. Let's think of private healthcare where the contract has expired for 12 years. There was a pre-agreement, it was only necessary to sign and not they are doing. - Landini explains - Let's think about the attack they made on the contract of the food workers in which Confindustria has distanced itself from the associations they have decided to sign ". According to the secretary of the CGIL "it is a logic that is wrong in our opinion, because today renewing contracts, in addition to being a salary issue that exists, is also a choice to say that the problems are faced together".



Furlan: "Conte still awaiting a call on Recovery Fund"

On the proposals for the use of funds from the Recovery Fund "we have been waiting for a long time for the convening of the Prime Minister who still does not arrive. We told him in July during the national demonstration in Rome, we will tell him again today in all the main squares of the regions of Italy ". This was stated by Annamaria Furlan, general secretary of the CISL, on the sidelines of the labor demonstration in Piazza Duomo in Milan organized by Cgil, Cisl and Uil. "No euro of the 209 billion must be wasted. Everything must go towards growth, work, the well-being of citizens and in the name of social cohesion". In particular, explained Furlan, we need to "unblock construction sites, invest in infrastructures, both tangible and intangible, and invest in growth which means innovation,research and training ".



"Work must be at the center of the choices. Enough useless flags, useless controversies", like "the one on the ESM: in the last 10-15 years 38 billion in public health have been cut in our country. Why say no to the ESM, at 37 billion that must have only the characteristic of being spent in healthcare? Enough useless controversies, we have to get to work ", explained Furlan.


Today, in Milan, Inas Cisl alongside @CislNazionale, with the Secretary Gen. @FurlanAnnamaria and the Secretary Gen. @CislLombardia Duci, to support the proposals of CGIL, CISL and UIL to avoid the social emergency. pic.twitter.com/RaJ0iTxskr

- Inas Cisl (@InasCisl) September 18, 2020