The political and trade union turmoil over the strikes
Latent differences of views even in the government majority on strikes. Damato's Scratches
It was also repeated in the case of tomorrow's general strike by the CGIL and UIL, limited to 4 hours in the transport sector due to the protest of the Guarantee Authority chaired by Paola Bellocchi and the injunction decided by the Minister of Infrastructure and Vice President of the Council , the usual script of the media and political opposition. That is, the representation of Matteo Salvini, this time, or other times of Antonio Tajani, the other vice president of the Council, who surprises and annoys the prime minister due to his hunger for visibility and political space in a majority where the distances between Meloni's party and allies don't get shorter but get longer. And without, moreover, the opposition being able to somehow intervene to gain some advantage by weakening the government which is also opposed by the unions for its budget law, or maneuver.
WHAT MELONI SAID ABOUT THE STRIKES
The script was repeated in the story not only of a Prime Minister besieged or overtaken by the Northern League leader, but also of a President of the Republic surprised to witness, upon returning from a trip abroad, a general political tension that was too strong, at least for his tastes. And therefore impatient at the Quirinale, between calls for order or calm behind the scenes of an official silence..
Then came, as always, first the denials from the usual well-informed circles of the Quirinale, registered with the equally usual doubts by the most avid newspapers – in our case the Republic – and then the vocal stride of Prime Minister Meloni. Who, having left Palazzo Chigi for one of her many appointments outside and – if I may make this observation – a little more tired than usual, even aged, was keen to recognize herself in the precept of public transport workers certainly not willing to without his knowledge by Minister Salvini. Who in the meantime had been insulted by Maurizio Landini, the head of the CGIL, as a prevaricator and provocateur, who arrived where he is after never having worked. In truth, even the good soul of Silvio Berlusconi said this about someone, even among his own, who created problems for him or fell from the pedestal where he had too generously raised him.
MELONI, SALVINI, BELLOCCHI AND THE UNIONS
However, Meloni assured Landini and his companions, mindful of the hospitality received at the last CGIL congress, that he has no intention of extending his list of reforms to also include the regulation of strikes in public services. But the prime minister could sooner or later find herself really overridden, this time, by the competent authority. Whose president did not leave Salvini alone to notice the propensity of certain unions to organize and call strikes on Fridays, building bridges that are much easier to build than the one also contested by the government and planned on the Strait of Messina. “We propose – said Bellocchi – a reflection on this too because in fact most of the protests take place before the weekend”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/scioperi-divergenze-governo/ on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 06:56:25 +0000.