The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini: “The strike is right. A business model based on contracts, subcontracts and precariousness is a model that kills. A system based on cuts in costs and working times does not respect rights and protections of workers, and must be changed immediately”
General strike of 4 hours on Tuesday 7 May (and 8 hours of construction workers in the province of Palermo alone). A garrison is also planned in front of the prefecture at 9 in the morning. This is the decision of CGIL, CISL and UIL and of the provincial secretariats of the Fillea, Filca and Feneal construction unions after the death, in Casteldaccia, of the five workers who were carrying out some work inside a waste water lifting tank near a wine cellar. “It is a drama to which we are all required to demand an answer – states Piero Ceraulo, secretary of the construction workers of the CGIL Fillea of Palermo – You cannot die from work, a job which among other things is increasingly precarious”.
The general secretary of the CGIL
“It is right to strike – declared the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini – A business model based on contracts, subcontracts and precariousness is a model that kills. A system based on cuts in costs and working times does not respect the rights and the protection of workers, and must be changed immediately. Furthermore – adds Landini – the CGIL will be a civil party in the process”.
The victims of work in Palermo
The number of deaths at work in the Palermo area has been defined by the trade unions as an endless trail of blood, with 16 victims in the capital in 2023 alone. “Just the other day in Palermo we remembered the deaths of Campofelice and via Ugo La Malfa- Fillea, Filca, Feneal – with this new tragedy, a situation of emergency and state of war is certified. Here workplace deaths are multiplying day after day.” On the initiative, the unions add: “we will be before the prefect to ask for the intervention of the institutions and to solicit the discussion on health and safety that we have been asking for for some time”.
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Accident at work, falls from construction site scaffolding. A worker died
The mobilization of civil society
The strike and the sit in in front of the prefecture proclaimed by the unions have one objective: “Institutions and civil society must unite in a common battle because, until every worker who does not return home, the work system will never be worthy of a country civil”, say the confederal unions. The requests are a dialogue between all the entities involved, continuous and comprehensive checks, supervision of the procurement system, and more attention to the training of workers but also of young people starting from school affirm a basic principle – add the unions – prevention is also a cultural fact that everyone must place as a priority”. The regional secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL, Alfio Mannino, Sebastiano Cappuccio and Luisella Lionti also spoke on the Casteldaccia tragedy: “It’s a pattern that has been repeated too often in recent months.”
