ROME (ITALPRESS) – The CISL will not be in the streets with CGIL and UIL to protest the budget law “because it is not a strike maneuver. There are many important elements that respond to precise demands of the Cisl, with almost all the resources for income support for workers and inclusion measures. Then, undoubtedly, there are things to improve: minimum pensions, schools and automotive first and foremost. But if every time we use the weapon of last resort and call for abstention from work, I wonder what representation is for.” Thus CISL Secretary General Luigi Sbarra in an interview with Corriere della Sera. “The strike is the noblest instrument available to the democratic union. But it is also the most radical. Using it automatically, ideologically, compulsively, leads to its weakening, even symbolically. It alienates people from the union and leads to irrelevance,” he explains.On the judgment of the premier, who spoke of prejudice on the part of CGIL and UIL, Sbarra observes, “Needless to go around it: for some years there has been an ideological component that tends to overlap political and union representation. A movementist and twentieth-century approach that is legitimate, but light years away from the Cisl approach and the needs of workers and retirees who want concrete answers and not follow flags. With this vocation we seek to promote dialogue among reformists, toward a sharing on strategic choices that imposes responsibility and autonomy. Against all populism, political or social.” Asked if Landini does politics, the ICFTU leader says, “We all do politics. There are those who do union politics, like the Cisl, and those who, like Landini, perhaps want to make themselves political aggregators of a broad party-social area. But winking at parties, towing an opposition that does not need collateralism, speaking for the third sector and associationism, does no one any good. “From the Prime Minister on Tuesday, the Cisl will ask for “an extra effort to intervene on some knots. I am thinking of more resources on minimum pensions and non-self-sufficiency. The structural cut in staffing levels in schools and the partial freeze on turnover in the Pa, universities and research must be eliminated. It is necessary to strengthen relief for middle income brackets, raising the decalage threshold to 60,000 euros and lowering the rates of the second Irpef bracket. And then it is necessary to restore the resources for the automotive fund,” Sbarra concludes.(ITALPRESS).-Photo: Agenzia Fotogramma-
