CGIL strike on 12 December, CISL demonstration on the 13th: unions split
The CGIL will take to the streets against the manoeuvre, this time without the UIL and burning by one day the initiative of the CISL, which on 13 December organised a large demonstration in Rome for the 'Pact for Responsibility'
General strike on 12 December against the manoeuvre. The Cgil chooses the hard line against government policies. The 'emergency' is to increase wages, and the budget law does not do it, makes it clear that secretary-general Maurizio Landini, who raises the bar and dusts off the 'patrimonial tax', proposing a contribution to be paid by the richest. The executive does not enter into the matter and diverts the controversy to the long weekend, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ironising about the choice of the day, a Friday, and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini backing her, inviting the trade unionist to change the date.
The CGIL will therefore take to the streets - this time without the UIL and burning by one day the initiative of the CISL, which on 13 December organised a big demonstration in Rome for the 'Pact for Responsibility' - with demonstrations all over Italy, to demand changes to a budget law that is 'wrong, unfair, that does not increase wages'. "We ask for additional resources" and that the "fiscal drag" be "returned" that in three years has sent 25 billion in taxes of workers, employees and pensioners up in smoke, thunders Landini, who says no to spending on weapons and launches a proposal. "A solidarity contribution" to the 1% of the 500,000 richest Italians, with a wealth of over 2 million: in this way we would have "26 billion", he explains, to invest in healthcare, recruitment, schooling and to increase everyone's salaries.
