CGIL union slams price range as Meloni mocks date chosen for strike.
Italy’s greatest commerce union, CGIL, has referred to as a nationwide normal strike on Friday 12 December in protest over the federal government’s 2026 price range invoice.
The information was introduced on Friday by Fulvio Fammoni, president of the CGIL normal meeting, throughout an occasion in Florence, attended by CGIL normal secretary Maurizio Landini.
“We are putting in opposition to a flawed price range regulation and in opposition to all of the measures which have piled up through the years” – Famoni stated – claiming the invoice “rewards the richest and never the poorest, encourages inequality, and envisions primarily zero progress.”
In a press release, CGIL issued a protracted listing of causes for the strike, together with calls for for the renewal of all nationwide labour contracts; larger investments in healthcare, schooling, native authorities, long-term care, and housing rights; and measures to deal with job insecurity and office security.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, in a submit on X, took goal at Landini and CGIL, asking sarcastically: “On which day of the week will 12 December fall?”.
Deputy premier Matteo Salvini struck an identical tone on X, writing: “We invite Landini, for as soon as, to surrender the lengthy weekend and organise the strike on one other day of the week”.
The nationwide strike will come simply two weeks after one other normal strike, on 28 November, referred to as by the USB and CUB union, additionally in protest over the price range.
More particulars will be introduced nearer the time of the strike. We replace our information of public transport strikes in Italy frequently. For official info see the transport ministry web site.
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