Saving Private Sbarra (Cisl)
A prudent premier and a government cannot throw their loyal and honest interlocutors (such as the CISL led by Sbarra) into disarray and reward unscrupulous marauders (first of all Landini =, who take workers hostage to indulge their political designs. Giuliano Cazzola's comment
Mario Draghi, in carrying out the first budget law passed by his government and in addressing the ambush that Maurizio Landini has set for him, has a specific duty to fulfill, above all because he has accepted to be the restorer – and until now he succeeded – of a '' good policy '', after years in which even the memory of it had been lost.
The '' good policy '' is made of seriousness, loyalty and trust towards those who, towards you, have been serious, loyal and equally confident.
The premier will have the opportunity to realize, in the days that separate us from December 16, that those who have breached the agreements for '' thirty denarii '', precisely because they have shown that they have no scruples, by proclaiming a senseless general strike, can be absolutely available. to sell himself for the same "thirty denarii" if they were offered to him by the government.
Draghi has to deal with a complex majority of which two important components (Pd and M5S) insist in favor of the requests of the CGIL, while LeU – even if it counts as a splash of talcum powder after the bath – did not hesitate to share the delusions of Landini.
Lega, Forza Italia and Italia Viva do not have the temper of the heroes of rigor. They arose when Draghi proposed a “ solidarity contribution '' to the detriment of medium-high incomes (it is inconceivable that an employee – earner of an income of 35 thousand euros upwards – has become a “ rich '' whose interests they do not deserve to be protected by the union); but they would not be scandalized if the government accepted some request capable of inducing the CGIL to lie again in the opposite direction, attributing a meaning of palingenesis to any changes, obtained thanks to the proclamation of the general strike (which at that point would be revoked with distribution of to the undying glory of Landini and Bombardieri).
In pursuing '' good politics '' Draghi would do well not to forget that a confederation – the CISL – escaped the adventure of general abstention (which then, after the intervention of the Guarantee Commission, became only '' colonel '') from the work of December 16. And it did not do it with vague and do-good reasons, such as the presence of new variants of the virus and its possible effects on production. No.
The CISL has taken on the responsibility of telling workers what the action of the unions has achieved under the budget bill and, consequently, the changes that the government has accepted and shared.
I do not know Luigi Sbarra and, in truth, I did not like that his organization – albeit with more caution – had followed Maurizio Landini in the hysterical anti-green pass scenes.
But the decision not to join the strike for those specific reasons of merit that restore the truth is an act that makes the CISL the role it played on many other occasions.
Above all because, as a trade unionist, Sbarra is aware that his organization risks being left with the lit match between his fingers, if the government makes (as is probable) other concessions to the CGIL and UIL.
A prudent premier and government cannot throw their loyal and honest interlocutors into disarray and reward unscrupulous marauders, who take workers hostage to indulge their political designs.
A government must take dissent into account (even when it is instrumental?), But it has no right to waste consent. In the posthumous book '' Passato Vicino '', Pierre Carniti, one of the greatest trade unionists of the second half of the last century (with whom I had the honor of working), duly recalls the story of the decree of February 14, 1984 with which the government of Bettino Craxi began to put his hand to the mechanism of the so-called escalator in order to slow down the devastating trend of inflation with double-digit rates (let's remember those times, now, in the presence of the signs of an undervalued recovery in recent months) .
As is known, the CISL, UIL and the socialists of the CGIL, in 1984, shared that provision, which was instead opposed by the union communists and the PCI. The conversion of the decree into law was accompanied, in the squares and in Parliament, by an imposing conflict, so much so that not only the DC, but also Craxi himself – says Carniti – wondered if it was worthwhile to sustain such a hard struggle to three points of the escalator (those that according to the decree would have been cut). Upon learning of this compromising work, Carniti wrote to Craxi that the CISL would not agree to sign solutions other than those already agreed. And Craxi went straight to that approach, without further mediation.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/salvate-il-soldato-sbarra-cisl/ on Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:02:41 +0000.