Cgil Cisl Uil: “Enough deaths at work, 1 victim every 48 hours on construction sites, mobilization starts from Rome”

As in a cemetery there were many white crosses planted on the ground, surmounted by yellow construction helmets and a red rose resting on each cross. This is the touching scenography chosen by the unions in memory of the victims at work for the joint demonstration, in Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome, to the cry of “Enough to the deaths at work”, called by the construction workers’ unions Fillea Cgil, Filca Cisl and Feneal Uil , which was also attended by the three leaders of Cgil Cisl and Uil Maurizio Landini, Luigi Sbarra and Pierpaolo Bombardieri. To push the unions to take to the streets are the numbers of this “massacre that does not stop”, of this “interminable trail of blood” as they thundered from the stage, a plague that has sown 1,000 victims in the workplace since October , 15 thousand in ten years, in addition to many accidents and occupational diseases, with one of the highest incidences in construction sites where, too often, workers over 60 climb onto scaffolding exposing themselves to fatal risks at an age that should be retirement, and where, from the beginning of this year to October, one victim was registered every 48 hours. A real “war bulletin” sentenced the trade unions. Moreover, too often the safety rules are disregarded on construction sites and for Cgil Cisl Uil checks should be strengthened, the recruitments among inspectors and then, the “points license” should be introduced for all those companies that do not observe the safety rules and at the same time able to reward those companies that “invest in training and in which safety is not a cost but a distinctive element”. A request shouted several times by the three leaders. “We need to enforce the contracts and then hire more inspectors, more occupational doctors and coordinate the powers and skills of INPS, Inail, the National Labor Inspectorate, the ASL. It is an urgent, necessary action” he said. underlined Bar. “Health and safety – Landini remarked – means not precarious work and not subcontracting at the maximum price and, it means not having to go to scaffolding at the age of 65 and then fall. It is therefore clear that it also means talking about pension reform, struggle to tax evasion and to create stable jobs that give young people a future “. The mobilization called by the unions “will serve to change the minds of politics and the government” announced Bombardieri. CGIL CISL and UIL are therefore preparing, from today’s demonstration, to go ahead with a mobilization to the bitter end until answers from the government are received on “a series of issues on which we have not yet” and there are “shortcomings” in reference to the budget law, starting precisely from pensions, which needs a reform “from the Government we want to have the certainty and commitment of a political will to change a wrong reform” Landini did not fail to underline in view of the convocation at Palazzo Chigi from Premier Mario Draghi on which the confrontation opens next Tuesday. On the reforms “we need to give answers to young people, to women, today, now” and we also need to “give answers to the inequalities created by the Fornero law because jobs are not all the same” said Bombardieri. The event, where a minute of silence was observed in memory of the victims, took place in a cordoned off piazza Santi Apostoli, which was only attended with a green pass and seated. In addition to the three leaders, the general secretaries of the category Alessandro Genovesi (Fillea), Enzo Pelle (Filca) and Vito Panzarella (Feneal) took turns on the stage, citing numerous testimonies. Among these is that of Monica, a mother who lost her 23-year-old son a few months ago, who died on the construction site in the Northeast, crushed by a load of 15 quintals of scaffolding unhooked from a moving crane. “I scream my pain also in the name of so many other mothers, so many other wives, so many other families like ours, devastated by the loss of a loved one so that the institutions can really do something concrete, we can’t take more than words, words, words that fly in the wind like the broken wings of someone who has gone to work without returning home! “. This is his message which was read by an Rlst delegate from Rome Gianni Lombardo.