Rome, 13 Nov. (LaPresse) – “It was a courteous but politically pointless meeting.” So said CGIL confederal secretary Christian Ferrari at the end of the meeting with the trade unions at Palazzo Chigi: “We have reaffirmed our strongly negative view of a budget that is in no way capable of tackling the economic, social and wage crisis our country is currently facing, and which is based on the twin pillars of austerity and rearmament – cutting education, defunding healthcare, and raising funds from the pension system both by cutting equalisation payments and by confirming the rise in the state pension age”, which “fails to outline an investment plan capable of filling the gap left by the end of the NRRP, particularly to reverse the ongoing process of deindustrialisation, and which, on top of all this, allocates more than 14 billion over the next two years to military spending: the most colossal increase in defence spending ever seen in our country in peacetime. Well, I would say that this is more than enough to confirm the reasons why the CGIL has called the general strike to be held on 20 November,” he concluded.
Budget Bill, CGIL: “A politically pointless meeting, confirming austerity and rearmament”
Rome, 13 Nov. (LaPresse) – “It was a courteous but politically pointless meeting.” So said CGIL confederal secretary Christian Ferrari at the end of the meeting with the trade unions at Palazzo Chigi: “We have reaffirmed our strongly negative view of a budget that is in no way capable of tackling the economic, social and wage crisis our country is currently facing, and which is based on the twin pillars of austerity and rearmament – cutting education, defunding healthcare, and raising funds from the pension system both by cutting equalisation payments and by confirming the rise in the state pension age”, which “fails to outline an investment plan capable of filling the gap left by the end of the NRRP, particularly to reverse the ongoing process of deindustrialisation, and which, on top of all this, allocates more than 14 billion over the next two years to military spending: the most colossal increase in defence spending ever seen in our country in peacetime. Well, I would say that this is more than enough to confirm the reasons why the CGIL has called the general strike to be held on 20 November,” he concluded.