Four questions to “free work from exploitation, make it more stable and safe, and more protected”. Gigia Bucci, secretary of the CGIL Puglia, thus summarizes the objectives of the referendum campaign launched by the union at a national level last April 25th (with the start of the collection of the 500 thousand signatures necessary to bring the referendums to the vote) and presented today in Bari, in during a meeting in the Starace room of the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bari. Alongside Bucci, the Uniba Labor Law professors, Roberto Voza and Vincenzo Bavaro, who worked with the Legal Office of the national CGIL to the drafting of referendum questions.
“This – said Bucci – is a referendum campaign that starts from the need to reactivate the democratic participation of people in the workplace, in the territories, of citizens to free work from a condition of exploitation and precariousness. We have started the collection of signatures also in Puglia and there are already many signatures”. Of the four questions, explained the secretary of the CGIL Puglia, “two concern the issue of illegitimate dismissals and the need to approve the treatment for the reinstatement of workers in the event of illegitimate dismissals, both with regard to the date of hiring”, with the cancellation of the provisions on dismissals of the Jobs Act, “both with regard to the size of the company, therefore in relation to companies with fewer than 15 employees”. “The third question concerns overcoming precariousness”, which aims to limit the use of fixed-term contracts to specific and temporary cases. Job precariousness which, underlined the regional secretary of the CGIL, represents a strong criticality also in Puglia, “where 33% of employment contracts barely exceed the duration of one month, 25% barely exceed the duration of three months, compared to the general framework of activated contracts in which 93% are precarious contracts”. “The fourth question concerns the topic of procurement, a topic that is quite delicate and urgent for this country today – highlighted Bucci – More and more people are dying from work and pockets of widespread precariousness are nesting with a high risk of accidents. There is therefore the need to restore the joint and several liability of client companies in contracting and subcontracting”.
Focusing specifically on the labor situation in Puglia, Bucci further highlighted how in the region there are still “historical disputes open, starting from Ilva and the related companies, from those companies in the industrial sector which due to a lack of political industrial of this government are unable to receive answers. And then there is the issue of healthcare, of public administrations – which are struggling with an extraordinary hiring plan that we have been demanding for some time, and which is needed to guarantee the mass. on land of the Pnrr resources which is still late in being realised”. “The data that are most worrying – said the secretary of the CGIL Puglia – are those relating to youth and female unemployment, but the data relating to the redundancy fund are also worrying, to those workers who will not return to work from the redundancy fund, but they will be destined to leave work permanently. In short, it is a South, a Puglia that suffers, that still sees no prospects”.
