Maneuver, Landini: “Strike because the government has closed the game”

“The government on the tax authorities told us that the game is over and the majority has not opened negotiations with the trade unions”. Thus the general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini, speaking with journalists in Bari, before the demonstration called by CGIL and Uil Puglia against the financial maneuver in view of Thursday’s general strike, answering a question about possible government openings he spoke about Minister Andrea Orlando and the consequent negotiations. “This is there for all to see,” he added. “The reason why we called the strike is precisely because the game ended and the majority came with us with a proposal that they did not change and for us that is not the basis for a tax reform worthy of the name, because , to carry out the tax reform, it is necessary to increase the deductions, the decontributions for workers, not one-off but structural, it is necessary to fight tax evasion, the financial income must be taxed adequately – Landini stressed – And, when a provision to 100 euros a year of tax improvement for those who take up to 20,000 euros, and from 6-7 800 euros for those with 3-4 times higher incomes, it means that this is an unjust reform, not acceptable “. “On the other hand, it is necessary to expand the tax base of the personal income tax and above all the issue today is to create work, because as long as young people and people are precarious, they are poor while working, they will not have a pension worthy of the name and this it does nothing but increase suffering and social division. On these elements – he added – we need a change, not formal, but substantial “.” Other negotiating tables have not yet begun – said the secretary of the CGIL – the method cannot be that the majority presents itself with the proposals already decided, but it must inform about what it intends to do. This is a way to kill social representation, not to involve the world of work in the choices that must be realized “. “We want the government’s economic policies to protect the people most in need. We are demanding that the tax reform protect lower wages and pensions. This is not happening. We are asking that all 8 billion euros go to work and employees. “, he continued concluding:” We are asking to overcome the precariousness in work, therefore to cancel absurd forms of precarious work and to provide for a new single contract for entry to work that is based on training and job stability. there is a real pension reform and we are asking to relaunch investments starting from the South, to create jobs and to be able to have an idea of ​​managing the reorganization processes that are instead causing closures and layoffs “.