The three unions launched, on Friday, February 15, the campaign on the "wage issue" (see our article No. 080022) with the catch phrase "fewer taxes, more wages and more pensions". The three General secretaries of the main confederations – Luigi Angeletti (Uil), Raffaelle Bonanni (Cisl), Gugliemo Epifani (Cgil) – say this initiative aims at making all political powers aware that the wage issue must be "the starting point of the new legislature". (Ref. 080131)
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Collecting signatures. There should have been a general strike on February 15, but after the governmental crisis and waiting for the elections, this date was turned into a mobilization day. The three main union organizations built up stands in main Italian cities to gather signature to support the platform “to value work and the country’s growth”, approved in Milan last November 24 (see our article No. 080022). The signatures gathered during this mobilization will be sent to all political parti

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