After 17 years since the last time, Bologna returns to host the national demonstration of May Day. With the procession through the streets of the center, led by the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL, the rallies in a Piazza Maggiore crowded with people (thirty thousand people, according to the unions) and the closing concert in the afternoon.
At the start of the big snake, in Piazza XX Settembre, the proposal - launched by CGIL leader Maurizio Landini from the pages of the Republic - to revive the unity among the confederal trade unions is the bench, because "the historical, political and party reasons that led to the division between the Italian unions no longer exist ". A theme that in the small groups is a bit 'all for the breadth of the challenge but also for the difficulties that inevitably such an initiative (CGIL, CISL and UIL together count over twelve million members and have mammoth equipment) is intended to meet. But the official theme chosen to characterize this Labor Day is Europe. Landini himself recalls this: "We paid for the relocations, the competition between countries and the absence of a European policy that puts people back at work. This has led to precariousness, reduced rights and reduced wages. the rest - he said - May 1st was born so many years ago precisely on an international battle, that of time and time and equal rights for all workers in the world to avoid competitions. A different Europe means putting work at the center and asking that politics take over again the centrality of work and of the person as an element of economic and social redesign ".
Then there is, and it is the emergence of these months, the question of the economy that continues to stagnate, even though yesterday Istat reported the exit from the "technical recession" thanks to the fact that in the first quarter of 2019 GDP stands out slightly, at 0.2 percent. "02 is a good prefix for Milan telephones - the secretary of the Uil Carmelo Barbagallo attacks with a joke - but it doesn't reassure me at all. The data say what we have been supporting for some time: the only sector that is good is exports. Internal consumption, on the other hand, is languishing, because workers and pensioners do not have the purchasing power to buy what we produce, so we begin to restore purchasing power, which can only be done in two ways: with contracts, and the government should immediately open bargaining on the civil service, and with the reduction of taxes, instead they reduce taxes to those who evade them but do not touch the tax wedge (the gap between the gross salary and what actually ends up in the payroll, ed), which also Confindustria claims should start with workers and pensioners ". Landini's reflections are of the same tenor: "Whoever today applauds the data of Istat, that is the Government, is the same that made a Def a few weeks ago saying that we do not grow as we expected and that, if nothing changes, between three years unemployment will still be over 10% ". The CISL guide, Anna Maria Furlan, speaks of the relaunching policies: "Unfortunately the country is blocked. The real thing is this, and we must unlock it by changing the economic line that characterized the financial first and then the Investment, investments. , investments - it marks -. And unblocking of the infrastructures. There are so many billions, a sea of money already allocated to unlock to finally create 400 thousand immediate jobs ".
The meetings. This, at the start of the event. From the stage, predictably, the rallies have instead targeted some of the most discussed measures taken by the yellow-green government. Barbagallo, the first to speak, has focused his shooting on social policies, supporting the need not to cancel, but to "modify to correct the legal texts on quota 100 (the advance of retirement, ed) and on citizenship income". Furlan, in his speech, took it with sovereignism: "We need Europe, other than sovereign speeches. But we need a Europe that is not just coefficients and protocols, but that is flesh and blood and also a little soul ". As for Landini, having overturned the League's issue on security: "The security of this country is not making laws to arm the citizens and defend ourselves, but that of not dying at work", he attacked. To then mark: "I would like to remind Minister Salvini: if he wants to respect the Constitution on which he has sworn he must not close the ports, but he must close the offices of Casapound". Also because, he shouted at the microphone closing in a roar of applause, "fascism is not an idea, fascism is a crime and we must always remember it". The procession was attended, among others, by the former CGIL leader Susanna Camusso, the archbishop of Bologna Monsignor Matteo Zuppi, representatives of local institutions, with the regional president Stefano Bonaccini and the mayor Virginio Merola, and national representatives, such as the Senator (and former governor of Emilia-Romagna) Vasco Errani, former Minister Cecile Kyenge and former Speaker of the Chamber Laura Boldrini.
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