Deaths at work, Uil against Calderone. But the minister was Orlando – Il Tempo

The confrontation between dignity and exploitation. It happened yesterday, during the presentation of a UIL study regarding deaths at work. Also present at the meeting was Emma Marrazzo, the mother of Luana D’Orazio, a young worker, just 22 years old, who died on the job, torn to pieces by a warping machine. “When I hear so many things said, when I hear talk of the points-based license – the woman said – well, Minister Calderone should come and live at my house to see what’s really happening”. A heartfelt appeal, marked by so much, dignified, suffering. Which was relaunched and amplified for the political clash by the leader of the UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri. “The Minister of Labor should go and live at Luana’s mother’s house. Nobody talks about what happens after the tragedy. There is no political will to address this problem”. And again: “We are tired of chatter and press conferences to make people believe that something is being done and then nothing is done”.

Evidently loaded tones that distort the dialectic between unions and government on a very painful wound that should be addressed with a very different approach. And in fact the indignation of the majority arrives, rallying around the owner of Labour. From Fratelli d’Italia, the group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti observes: «Maintaining the utmost respect for the words of Luana’s mother, dictated by an understandable pain, we do not understand how they can be repeated by the representative of a trade union organization who points the finger against a member of the current government. Deaths at work are a dramatic plague that must be fought across the board and cannot be resolved with a magic wand by a minister who took office 18 months ago.” And he adds: «Marina Calderone was not Minister of Labor when the girl died, but Andrea Orlando was, on whom I don’t think Bombardieri ever fired cannon shots». Criticism of Bombardieri then comes from the President of the Chamber’s Labor Commission, Walter Rizzetto, who observes: «Exploiting a tragedy is unacceptable. And it is a shame that an important union secretary expresses himself with these words. Shameful and also dangerous. I invite Uil itself to take a stand against such violent and out-of-place statements, also considering the fact that the current Minister of Labor Marina Calderone was preceded by Minister Orlando at the time of the events.”

Marina Calderone also defends itself in the central area of ​​the coalition. This is the case of Pino Bicchielli, of us Moderates, who speaks of an “incomprehensible and specious controversy” on the part of the UIL secretary. While from Forza Italia, the national labor manager Chiara Tenerini reasons: «We support with great determination the measures to increase inspections, strengthen controls and promote training and prevention. We are also committed to introducing incentives for virtuous companies that invest in safety, helping companies to increase protection for workers.” Therefore, you add, «Speculating on a dramatic story like that of Luana D’Orazio, which also occurred under another Government, does not honor Bombardieri and is profoundly disrespectful».