Unions sit-in in Palermo over the death of the five Casteldaccia workers

About three hundred people gathered in front of the prefecture in via Cavour. A general strike has also been proclaimed for today

PALERMO – Un sit-ins of around three hundred people were held in Palermoin front of the prefecture, in via Cavour, to protest after the death of five workers in Casteldaccia. The initiative was organized by CGIL, CISL and UIL Palermo workers who also called a four-hour general strike for today at the start of the work shift. The regional leaders of the ‘triple’ also arrived in Via Cavour, where car traffic is blocked. Also on the street was a delegation from Fillea Cgil Palermo with a banner: “#bastamortisullavoro”.

The secretary of the CGIL of Palermo, Mario Ridulfo, is very harsh: “This tragedy did not arise from an accident – ​​he says -. We don’t know the causes that produced it but we know what lies behind what happened: the rules that have determined the precariousness of the world of work”. According to Ridulfo: “when a worker is precarious he is fragile and subject to blackmail, he cannot refuse to go down a well or climb onto scaffolding”. The secretary of the CGIL Palermo then concludes: “We need to get to the bottom of things and put a hand to them causes that generate these situations, changing those norms that determine the balance of power in the world of workotherwise we will continue to witness sterile and useless commemorations.”
Leonardo La Piana, secretary of the CISL Palermo-Trapani, underlines the problem of the lack of labor inspectors: “The investigators will clarify the contours of this tragedy but in fact we know that until controls increase and there are no labor inspectors to control all the companies there will be no progress in terms of security”, is the bitter observation.

La Piana then raises the alarm: “We are on the eve of important investments with Pnrr resources, if the system doesn’t change we will face carnage. companies understand that safety is not a cost but an investment”. Also in the square was the secretary of the regional Uil Lusiella Lionti: “For years we have been asking for real interventions against accidents at work – she recalls. It is now a continuous massacre. These are not accidents but murders. We ask for a permanent table on health, we ask for inspectors to arrive to check businesses and we ask for those in compliance to be closed.”