Maneuver, Landini: 2 billion more for bills and decontribution, but they are not enough

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02 December 2021 Unions dissatisfaction with the meeting with the government on the financial maneuver. According to the secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, the 2 billion that the government wants to allocate to calm the expensive bills and a one-off tax reduction for this year is too few: "It is not clear who it would concern, and how it would be spent" - he said Landini, who announced the possibility of a mobilization leading to a general strike. According to sources from Palazzo Chigi, the confederates would have been explained that "" 47% of the resources allocated to the tax cut under maneuver will go to the lowest incomes ".

"The government" - as reported by the secretary of the CGIL - "has reserved the right to reflect". But "if things remain as they are now regarding pensions, taxes and insecurity, it will be necessary to continue the mobilizations and evaluate together which initiatives to implement". 

"We have strongly re-proposed the problem of the fight against insecurity" - thus Maurizio Landini at the end of the meeting on the Maneuver - "The Government has confirmed the system already proposed, but instead profound changes are needed: 8 billion must go to workers and retirees starting with the lowest incomes. This is not the time of the IRAP. "

According to government sources, at the table it was explained to the unions that "47% of the resources earmarked for tax cuts will go to the lowest incomes". Data processed by the ministry of the economy. In detail - the government said - "Income up to 15 thousand euros will go 1.1 billion, those from 15 thousand to 28 thousand euros: 2.2 billion". Therefore, according to the accounts of the Mef, the lower bands will go to a total of 3.3 billion - almost half of the 7 available in the maneuver to cut the personal income

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The leader of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, reported that "The government has ensured the willingness to increase the no tax area for pensioners to 8,500 euros", according to Sbarra from the comparison there are "some first achievements". We will continue to exert strong social pressure to change the budget law - concluded the CISL secretary - "which has many lights but there are also shadows: we need to do more on work, investments, school". In addition, in the plans of Palazzo Chigi - continues Sbarra - "85% of the 7 billion income tax intervention is destined for income brackets below 50 thousand euros for employees and retirees".

The secretary of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, assesses the government's measures as insufficient: "In the maneuver there are no incisive measures on tax evasion, and there are no answers on taxes and pensions". Another sore point according to Bombardieri: "on tax evasion and with the IRPEF reform, workers earning up to 20 thousand euros are penalized. And there are no answers on pensions". Among the requests of the trade unions to Draghi: the lowering of the retirement age for construction workers, other resources on the social bee, intervening on the woman option and making an intervention on the supplementary pension "concluded the Uil secretary

The government confirmed to the trade unions the tax intervention planned in the maneuver on Irpef and Irap: "They told us that tomorrow they intend to go to the Council of Ministers and will reflect on our proposals", thus the union secretary: "The premier first he will regain a relationship with the three confederal secretaries, then he will go to the Council ". 

Prime Minister Draghi's meeting with the confederates was attended by the economy minister Daniele Franco, the labor minister Andrea Orlando and the undersecretary to the presidency of the council, Roberto Garofoli.

For the unions: the general secretaries of CGIL (Maurizio Landini), CISL (Luigi Sbarra) and Pierpaolo Bombardieri from Uil.