A few days after the workers’ massacre in via Mariti there were CGIL and UIL protesting, but today in front of the Esselunga construction site grassroots trade unionism is found, demonstrating in unity to ask the institutions and political forces to fight, much more seriously than is happening, job insecurity.
Appointment at 10 in the morning for a demonstration organized by the coordination “Every day is May Day”, ready to denounce: “The massacre in the workplace continues and shows no signs of slowing down. The Meloni government has approved a decree which will not produce any concrete effect, and which will serve neither to hit those responsible nor to reverse the trend of accidents and deaths at work caused by the chain of subcontracting”.
May Day therefore “cannot be a party but a day of struggle and protest, which is part of a national and international context of a tendency towards war, skyrocketing costs of living and company divestments: all factors that contribute to making the context more difficult in which we find ourselves living.” A day therefore in which “to question the Biagi law with its subsequent amendments, including cascade procurement. Cancel the Jobs Act, to eliminate its harmful effects on the world of work. Then establish regulatory, remunerative and contractual equality for all those who work on a construction site as well as in any other workplace”.
It is also necessary to “cancel the Bossi-Fini law, to break the link between contract and residence permit, which puts hundreds of thousands of migrant workers under blackmail. Finally, introduce the crime of homicide at work, to build an effective and concrete deterrent tool, and strengthen the figure of workers’ safety representatives. Because in our country there is a widespread employer culture that sees health and safety as a cost, to be reduced to the bare minimum in order to maximize profits”.
Within the coordination not only the basic unions, from USB to Cobas to Cub, but also other social realities, starting from the Assembly on 16 February – the day of the collapse of the Esselunga construction site – which brings together the many inhabitants of the neighborhood more than critics of the project of a shopping center in place of the old military bakery: “The people who live here have always wanted a park and even more so now – underlines Debora Landi of the Assembly – to cancel that real estate speculation which previously planned apartments for luxury tourist rentals, and then the shopping centre”.
Finally, on the platform of the event, in which the former Gkn Fabbrica Collective will also participate, there are the issues of the right to housing, and of course the stop to all wars. A procession authorized for days by the Police Headquarters, with a route that from via Mariti will go towards via Ponte di Mezzo, via Giovanni dei Marignolli and via Buonsignori, to return to via Mariti and finally arrive in piazza Dalmazia.
