I’ll tell you about Landini’s CGIL somersaults on green passes and vaccines
The recent (and changing) positions of the CGIL on vaccines and green passes analyzed by Giuliano Cazzola
Go to understand the CGIL. They wanted us to believe that the organization led by Maurizio Landini had ambiguities in the fight against the malefic virus with the sole purpose of weakening its action '' in view of the important deadlines of the coming months '' while the confederation intended to claim its own autonomy '' in programmatic elaboration, judgment and initiative, as a constitutive value that finds its foundation in the unitary and democratic character of the rules of one's own internal life ''. This is how the National Steering Committee, meeting yesterday, expresses with the flags unfurled to the wind, to confirm “ the commitment of the CGIL for health and safety in the workplace both in contrasting the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 virus and for the implementation of concrete measures aimed at countering the endless massacre of deaths and accidents at work ''.
The CGIL rightly claims (perhaps attributing all the credit to itself together with the satellite organizations, as if the business world were against it) the adoption of safety protocols in all workplaces that have allowed the country to overcome the most difficult months of pandemic, affirming the priority of health over profit (go back!). It is true: it was only thanks to this assumption of responsibility and above all to workers (and to some extent also to companies?) That Italy was able to restart. Then, a year later, the updates of the Protocols were added with the possibility of vaccinating oneself in the company without compromising all prevention measures, from the mask to the spacing, the use of tampons, to tracking. Then, in a spirit of solidarity, the CGIL considers it equally fundamental to counter the pandemic that vaccination be required in every country in the world, temporarily suspending the patents on vaccines and anti-Covid drugs and for this they urge the government to promote this request to starting from the next international initiatives.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Steering Committee of the CGIL believes that vaccination is a fundamental act of social and health responsibility and commits all the structures to carry out a national training and information campaign also with assemblies in all workplaces on the value of vaccination and on prevention and safety measures, which in light of the spread of the virus and its variants cannot be reduced or made less stringent. And it is at this point that the truth comes to light. The CGIL expects that more be done. In fact, the Steering Committee, in line with the provisions of the Constitution, asks the Government and Parliament to assume the political responsibility of providing for the vaccination obligation for all citizens, an obligation envisaged by the state only for health personnel and the tracing, containment and health surveillance measures are strengthened. In these hours, however – complains the Steering Committee – it seems that an orientation continues to prevail which instead of introducing the vaccination obligation would limit itself to extending the Green Pass (an instrument created to guarantee mobility to European citizens) as well as to the world of schools also to other sectors of the world of work. The Steering Committee therefore considers it necessary to overcome the contradictions that have emerged so far in the Government, in order to determine a regulatory framework that achieves the objective of generalizing vaccination, avoiding producing divisions in the workplace.
Here we begin to not understand. If in the workplace the divisive element lies in undergoing vaccination or not, by which spell could this disparity be overcome through a legal obligation, which is also proving to be problematic even where it is already foreseen? Do the comrades of the CGIL think that by reading the obligation in the Official Gazette, the no vax would resign themselves? But wouldn't it be a legal obligation to also comply with the extension of the green pass to other sectors of the world of work? All the more so since the agenda of the Steering Committee affirms that the CGIL has no principled objections against the Green Pass which we consider (NB) an important and shareable instrument and that in any case – is this not what Draghi intends to do? – must be adopted by law. What the CGIL wants to avoid is that the Green Pass becomes a way to circumvent or replace the clear choice to be made of the vaccination obligation in application of our Constitutional Charter.
One would like to ask: what do you care? Where is it written that it is necessary to vaccinate everyone, even those who do not have social relationships such as to involve the need to be together with other people? And in any case, isn't it reasonable to try first with the green pass, which is certainly a more flexible and more respectful solution for individual freedom? People are required not to create problems for others, but they must be able to protect themselves, if they want, even by other means if they do not believe they are injecting the vaccine. The green pass is not an obligation but a requirement that is necessary in many situations of everyday life, but not in all and in case of need you can use a tampon.
Finally, the CGIL wants to avoid in any case that the Green Pass becomes a tool for sanctioning or firing workers or limiting the recognition of contractual rights such as access to the canteen service. Good. But if there was a legal obligation, how would we deal with the '' dodgers ''? If they were allowed to still do what they want and escape the vaccine, why introduce an obligation without sanctions? It is not a fair solution that the social partners intend to demand from the government: free buffer or at the expense of taxpayers who may be vaccinated. Then, in the agenda, comes the appeal to good feelings: it is time not to leave anyone alone with their fears, to protect the weakest and most fragile – it is the paean of the CGIL – it is time to unite and not feed divisions in the workplace, combining the right to work with the right to health. If we have understood correctly, however, the two rights would not necessarily be in harmony with each other, but it would be a matter of recognizing the right to work even for those who are not interested in the right to their own health and that of others.
Basically we return to a '' neither nor '' of the dark times: neither with the State nor with the '' terrapiattisti '' of the no vax. Finally, the Steering Committee strongly rejects and condemns '' the exploitation, the mystifications, the falsehoods about our organization and the Secretary General '', the '' little father '' Maurizio Landini, recalling '' the whole organization, starting by the management groups, to safeguard and practice the principles of loyalty, responsibility and solidarity, capable of guaranteeing the uniqueness of the organization towards the outside world, especially in the most difficult moments ''. That is, the Word of the head comes first. He is him and you are not a c … o.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/cgil-green-pass-vaccini/ on Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:17:02 +0000.