Maneuver, Landini: "Available for comparison before the strike"

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07 December 2021 The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, in a press conference with the secretary of the UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, opens a window nine days after the general strike called by the two unions for December 16: "We are ready to discuss everything, but there must be very strong changes. " On the modalities of the mobilization, Landini explains that workers in the health sector will be exempted "because we are in the midst of the pandemic". "It is serious", according to the secretary, that in the discussion in the government on the tax and personal income tax "the prime minister was placed in a minority".

On the absence of the CISL from the mobilization, the leader of the CGIL said: "Let's not go to the streets against other trade unions, but to support the demands of the unitary platform". To which the secretary of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, echoes in the press conference: "There is not a single union but a unitary one: sensitivity divides us in the response. I am sure that we will resume the unitary path". So Bombers.

Given the delicate moment due to the emergency of the pandemic, the unions have announced that the health sector will be exempted from the strike: "The general strike will last 8 hours, in compliance with the law", but "being in the midst of the pandemic, the whole health sector will be exempted ". Thus the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini. 

The secretary of the CGIL then spoke of the discussion on taxation that took place in the Council of Ministers: "What has happened is serious: even on one point the Prime Minister has been placed in a minority". The reference is to Prime Minister Draghi's proposal to exclude from the Irpef cuts those who earn more than 75,000 euros, a proposal that had not had the approval of the majority that supports the government: "The government in its majority blocked this initiative: it was not ours request, it was an autonomous action of the premier ". 

There is "also a problem of method on the tax reform: on the destination of the 8 billion the government came to the table after the majority agreement, but there was no real confrontation with the trade unions". Thus the general secretary of the CGIL, who concluded: "That is not the reform that the country needs: the method used on the tax side worries us". According to Landini, the 8 billion earmarked for tax cuts "must all go to workers and pensioners. No to the IRAP cut". On the subject of pensions, Landini stressed that although there is a commitment from the government to start the discussion table, "it has not yet started". 

The tax intervention defined with the majority agreement "does not have our consent" - said the secretary of the CGIL - "Reshaping the personal income tax rates cannot be the basis for a tax reform, which is thus not fair and does not ensure the principle of progressivity: we need to work on deductions and decontribution ".