ROME (ITALPRESS) – “We have called a general strike because we are convinced that the real conditions of the country need concrete answers.” On the eve of the meeting with the government at Palazzo Chigi, Uil General Secretary PierPaolo Bombardieri returns to the reasons for the strike and does so by answering a question on the “Restart” broadcast on Rai3.”The recovery of the 16 percent loss of purchasing power of wages and pensions is a priority and, then, there are the issues of safety at work, taxation, health care and pensions: on these points,” Bombardieri stressed, “the unions that have called the strike are dissatisfied. This is a complicated country: a few years ago, some blamed the unions for the lack of wage growth, but,” the Uil leader remarked, “now that we are doing a battle to make up for the loss of purchasing power we are being called extremists. Moreover, the confirmation of the tax wedge, does not grow wages, but only consolidates what is already in the pay envelope, so that the one in January 2024 will be the same, if not slightly lower, than this year’s. As of today,” Bombardieri concluded, “there are no margins to modify the maneuver, which was presented as armored, and the confrontation with the government tomorrow night, unfortunately, will start from this assumption.
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