Unanimously “worried” by the impact the “economic maneuver” (see our dispatch No. 110750) is going to have on “employees, pensioners and the country’s development prospects,” the leaders of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil, Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonanni and Luigi Angeletti, met this morning (December 7) to agree on a unitary action. They called for a 3-hour strike with local gatherings and demonstrations on Monday, December 12 – the day the Parliament starts discussing the austerity measures. Unions want a meeting with the government to “face the problems resulting from the maneuver and demand the necessary changes.” During the hearing of the Chambers’ budget committee, today, they are presenting joint amendments and will unitarily call on the parties when presenting amendments during the Parliamentary debates. Camusso said that unions wanted to change “the most dangerous aspects of the maneuver:” not increasing low and average pensions, the new criteria for the seniority pension (which the reform is pretty much abolishing), or even reintroducing the municipal tax on permanent residence (which the Berlusconi administration removed in 2008).
nions wanted to change “the most dangerous aspects of the maneuver:” not increasing low and average pensions, the new criteria for the seniority pension (which the reform is pretty much abolishing), or even reintroducing the municipal tax on permanent residence (which the Berlusconi administration removed in 2008).
A compromise to return to unity? The trade unions reject both form and content because the government wouldn’t “consult” them on aspects affecting workers and pensioners. The 3-hour
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