They were about a thousand interns to report this morning in Prefecture Squarein the heart of Catanzaro, for take part in a protest to ask for secure contractualization and greater support from the Calabria Region and local authorities. A “strike” that includes all temporary workers of the various public administrations Calabrians, organized by CGIL, CISL, UIL and USB.
“The administrations that ask for contractualization they ask something normal. The solution that has been identified at national level is not sufficient because it does not guarantee the contractualization of workers” he explained Married Angelregional secretary of the CGIL.
“What we ask the government is to do, in addition to the law which should be improved because it does not include all the workers in question, also the necessary financing to carry forward the contractualization and we will not stop here if there are no responses from the government and the Region which has also committed to supporting the municipal bodies and administrations. We will carry on with the fight and we will raise the level.”
“Must work cohesively, we must immediately find the necessary resources to give dignity to these workers, above all to proceed with the commitment and the agreement also signed with the trade unions, i.e. those to contract these workers to 18 hours. To be able to do it 70 million are needed. We don’t ask for forms of welfare, we ask for dignified work. These workers are truly showing sense of great responsibility” he underlined instead Tonino Russoregional secretary of the CISL.
“I have been for several years obligedsomehow forced to do an endless internship, without contributions. We have many people who are also close to the pension threshold, but what pension can they calculate if there is a contribution gap that it has become a sinkhole. In the next few days, in the next few weeks there will be corrective measures by the government and therefore on the financial system and we must find the necessary coverage to be able to begin this path which must absolutely aim at the stabilization of these workers and these families”.
“These people have guaranteed to municipal administrations to move forward, services in the territories and today there is a risk that they will not be stabilized and as if in Calabria it was normal to have precarious work as a practice. These are the so-called ghost workers that Uil is fighting against. We want to say today enough of the precariat and we must do it by focusing on stabilization by recognizing these workers rights and protections that they have not had until now” he finally added Maria Elena Seneseregional secretary of Uil.
