CGIL and UIL: general strike confirmed on 29 November, excluding railways. Salvini: if there are no bands I will intervene
Landini's union reaffirms the stop also for the Ministry of Justice, health personnel, passenger transport for which the Guarantors had asked for exclusion. Agreement with social partners on Jubilee protocol: no strikes at national events without CGIL signature
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Key points
- Garante: trade unions responsibly re-evaluate strike
- Salvini: if wild strike without bands I will intervene
- Signing of Protocol between social partners for Jubilee without CGIL and grassroots unions
- Nine events of the Holy Year are not allowed to strike.
- President of the Guarantors: the agreement is a virtuous example
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There is a tug-of-war over the general strike on Friday 29 November between Cgil and Uil and the Guarantee Commission: the unions contest the request of the Guarantors, communicating the exclusion from the agitation of passenger and freight rail transport personnel and Trenitalia regional business management personnel in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta. But the two unions confirm for all the other sectors, public and private (including contracting and instrumental): the stop for the entire day, including staff of the Ministry of Justice, health personnel, passenger transport (air, local transport and maritime), for whom the commission of guarantee had asked for exclusion as they were already affected by other strike initiatives proclaimed previously.
The partial compliance with the indications of the Commission, the CGIL and UIL explain, is 'motivated by the need to avoid that the size of the general strike is excessively reduced, with consequent negative effects on the mission of the proclaiming organisations representing the interests of workers'.
Garante: trade unions responsibly re-evaluate the strike
From the end of the day, the Strike Guarantee Commission arrives with an invitation to the trade unions to 're-evaluate with a sense of responsibility the decisions taken' in order 'not to further prejudice the constitutionally guaranteed rights of users, already affected in the same period by previously proclaimed collective abstentions'.
Salvini: if wild strikes without bands I will intervene
"If the wild strike returns, as it did the last time, without the guarantee bands and ruining the day for millions of Italians, taking away the right to health, work, study, I will intervene directly as the law allows me to do," said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, on the sidelines of the presentation of the Anas annual report on Italians' driving styles, about the general strike on 29 November. "They have taken out the railways and it is already a step forward," the minister added. 'If things are done according to the law, which also respects the high workers, the right to strike is there,' Salvini pointed out. However, 'I leave it to the Italians to judge whether the amount of strikes in rail and public transport in these two years, which have no precedent in history, is normal,' the minister concluded.
Signed Protocol between social partners for the Jubilee without CGIL and grassroots unions
But this is not the only ground on which divisions have emerged between CGIL and the Guarantee Commission. The union led by Maurizio Landini, in fact, has decided not to sign the Protocol between the social partners for the Jubilee 2025, which contemplates, on the occasion of some events in which a significant public participation is expected, extraordinary exemptions during which one cannot strike (in the Transport, Security, Environmental Hygiene and Health sectors), in a time frame that also includes the day before and after the event.
