Four referendums of popular initiative to have a more stable, more dignified, more protected and, above all, safer work. A need, the latter, tragically highlighted by the umpteenth victim of a work accident, the consequence of an episode that occurred in a construction site in Monza.
Special speeches and ceremonies appear more and more the same and, above all, more and more useless. There CGILtherefore, tries to reverse the trend by promoting four referendums. The campaign also started in Brianza. The goal is to exceed quota one on a national level one million and 100 thousand signaturesa “ceiling” reached in 2016, on the occasion of the referendum campaign against the Jobs Act. Ultimately, that referendum did not take place.
This time, however, the CGIL intends to call voters to vote in the spring of 2025. There petition will continue until the end of June. «In this period – he underlines Walter Palvarini, general secretary of Cgil Monza and Brianza – we will be in the markets, in the stations, in the meeting places. You can sign in our offices”. This time, membership can also be expressed through a digital signature using a QR code. The opportunity is reserved for holders of an electronic identity card and SPID.
«Work in Italy – specifies the CGIL in a statement – is too precarious and wages are too low. Three people die working every day. To achieve the maximum possible profit, contracts, subcontracts, fake cooperatives, outsourcing of activities have become normal organizational models. The fruit of twenty years of wrong laws is a clear worsening of living conditions. Work must be protected because it is a constitutional right. It must be safe because you have to live and not die from work. It must be dignified and therefore well paid. It must be stable because precariousness is a loss of freedom”.
The fourth referendum question is the one specifically linked to the theme of safety. It is intended to abolish the rule which excludes the joint and several liability of client companies in contracting and subcontracting in the event of accident or occupational disease of the worker.
«In the first two months of this year – he explains Sabina Bruschini, responsible for the Inca Cgil Monza and Brianza patronage – in Italy there have been 119 fatal accidents at work. There were 92 thousand injuries”. The first question aims to repeal the rules that prevent the reinstatement to work in case of illegitimate dismissals. In this case we want to cancel the rules on dismissals of the Jobs Act which allow companies not to reinstate a worker who has been unlawfully dismissed, if he was hired after 2015.
There second proposal aims to repeal the rules that facilitate the illegitimate dismissals in small businesses. The objective is to increase protection for those who work in companies with fewer than 15 employees. The third questionfinally, it concerns the laws that have liberalized the use of fixed-term work. The CGIL intends to limit its use to specific and temporary reasons. «To precarious workers – he explains Irene Zappalàhead of the Cgil disputes office in Monza and Brianza – the possibility of taking out a loan for the purchase of a house or a car is also denied”.
