After the 24-hour strike organized by the independent unions, it is now the three big Italian union confederations’ turn to call for a strike against the planned Stability Act. But their strike will be national, not general, and will last for 4 hours. Mobilizing organized by November 15 will be managed by local and regional structures. The trade unions believe that this form of action is “more useful” than a general strike because their goal is to “get results in Parliament before November 15, when the law’s path is well under way,” explained CGIL leader Susanna Camusso. (Ref. 130644)
“For 5 years we’ve been adopting financial laws that fail to give answers to the country, with the risk of keeping it in a recessing state. We need the courage to shift weights,” Camusso said, reassessing the urgent need for a tax cut for workers and pensioners, “retrieving resources from the annuities fiscal reform.”
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