To be precarious it is much more than having few economic resources to conduct one dignified life. It means not having certainties and rights to rely on, to be focused on the present and not be able to think about medium and long-term projects.
A condition of existential difficultywhich arises from the absence of stable and adequately contractualized work, against which the CGIL has decided to take the field with the petitionalso digital (this is the link https://www.cgil.it/referendum) For four referendums popular.
The national campaign of the CGIL “I’ll sign my name for the job” has now also caught on Monza and Brianza. In just over a week, starting from April 29th, the via Premuda union has already collected more than a thousand signatures.
COLLECTING SIGNATURES
A series of dates have been planned throughout the provincial territory in which the CGIL banquet of Monza and Brianza will be present in the union headquarters on the provincial territory, in squares, markets, places of aggregation and work.
Tomorrow, May 8, for example, signatures will be collected at the headquarters of the Chamber of Labor in Monza, in via Premudafrom 9am to 12.30pm and on Agrate Brianza market (9am-1pm). On May 9th, however, as far as the capital of Brianza is concerned, the banquets will still be in via Premuda and at Cambiaghi market (9-13 hours), while a Sevesofrom 9.30 to 11, you can sign for the referendum at the headquarters of the Spi Cgil of via Borromeo.
At a national level they are needed at least 500 thousand signatures, then certified and validated by the Supreme Court, so that the four referendums on work can be submitted, presumably in 2025to the judgment of Italians to try to overcome the threshold of quorum set at 50% of those entitled to vote.
THE THEME
Since the repeal of rules that prevent reinstatement of those who, hired after 2015, were illegitimately dismissed upon elimination of the cap on compensation for unjustified dismissal of workers in companies with fewer than fifteen employees. From overcoming the precariousness of fixed-term employment contracts, prolonged without cause, to canceling the rule that excludes the joint liability of contracting companies in a logic of poor safety and increasingly decreasing labor costs.
These are the objectives of the four CGIL referendums which overall concern a very delicate matter and the subject, over the last twenty years, of various legislative interventions capable of affecting the protectionthe safetythe dignity and the stability of work in Italy.
Matteo Moretti (first from right) at the signature collection banquet
THE MESSAGE
“We want to change wrong and discriminatory laws – he claims Matteo Moretti, Secretary of the CGIL of Monza and Brianza – with the Jobs Actfor example, reinstatement to work after an illegitimate dismissal is not allowed, forcing employees to also risk having to pay legal expenses or, with Legislative Decree no. 23 of 2015, social costs are passed on to the weakest by providing compensation for unjustified dismissal of a maximum of 6 months’ salary for employees of companies with up to 16 employees, i.e. 95% of Italian companies”.
“We will be in the square every day for convince people to get involved on issues that affect the lives of all workers, even those who on paper are most protected by the current rules – he continues – with the collection of signatures for the four referendums the CGIL wants get people out of a state of resignation on the topic of work”.
THE BATTLES
The horizon of the CGIL, which recently also carried out the awareness and information campaign “Precariousness has too many faces: let’s fight it together”, is to intensify the collection of signatures in May and June. There is time, then, until July 20th to complete the campaign and then proceed with the other bureaucratic steps required by law, up to the final judgment on the admissibility of the questions which is up to the Cassation.
“We will make a difference if we can stimulate participation because precariousness, poor work and involuntary part-time work, especially among women, are social plagueswhich have serious effects on the management of the present, but also, in the future, on the times and remuneration of pensions” states the Secretary of the CGIL of Monza and Brianza.
“If the four referendums go to the polls, the other challenge will be that of bring 25 million Italians to vote in order to exceed the quorum threshold – he concludes – is also an important step to increase people’s awareness of other equally important social issues, from minimum salary to the fair tax up to the defense of public health“.
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