Salvini reduces strike, disfigurement of Landini and Bombardieri at the table

The national transport strike called by CGIL and UIL for November 17th has been reduced to 4 hours, from 9am to 1pm. Also this time the confrontation between minister Matteo Salvini and the unions ended with a bankruptcy table and a letter of injunction that arrived late at night from MIT. Hardliners from Landini and Bombardieri who did not attend the table sending their delegates. The unions do not give in: “We will continue, the strike is confirmed in its modalities and in its nature as a general strike”, they assure, leaving the Porta Pia department after a lightning confrontation lasting less than half an hour. And Landini attacks, accusing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of offering “a deafening silence” in the face of what the secretary defines as “a very serious act. I would like to understand – he comments – whether Salvini’s position is the same as that of the government” . Meanwhile, a press conference is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon by the directors of Corso d’Italia, Maurizio Landini, and via Lucullo, Pierpaolo Bombardieri.

The controversy, fueled by a tense back-and-forth between the leader of the Northern League and the Landini-Bombardieri axis, began a few days after the proclamation of the protest, which involves transport, public employment and schools and which adds to the path of territorial mobilization against the maneuver started on November 17th with the Central regions. On Monday, in fact, the Strike Guarantor had decided that the one scheduled for next Friday could not be called a general strike (but rather an intersectoral one), thus inviting the acronyms to exclude the aviation sector from the mobilization, the reduce that of other transport sectors to 4 hours and remodulate the Fire Department’s abstention time. At that time, the CGIL and the UIL exempted flight and ground staff from the air sector and cut firefighters’ abstention, now from 9 am to 1 pm. But no setback in transport: national stoppage, for eight hours or an entire shift. From Salvini, however, came a clear ultimatum: also reduce the protest against transport by half. “Either the unions return to the scope of the law or I will intervene”, was the message sent by the deputy prime minister in a letter to the two groups and then reiterated in the morning on the stage of the Avis assembly, and in the late afternoon, in a broadcast live on Facebook, close to the confrontation at the ministry, in which he expected “a final act of common sense”.

The unions are motionless: “The reasons for the strike have not ceased, which we continue to consider a national general strike”, they responded in black and white, in a letter addressed to Porta Pia, Landini and Bombardieri, stressing that they complied “with a sense of responsibility” in the face of to the requests of the Commission – accused in recent days of being singularly close to the Government’s positions -, excluding the aviation sector and ensuring minimum services and guarantees of citizens’ right to mobility. Shortly afterwards the call to MIT arrived and, together, the decision of the two union leaders not to go, sending the confederates in their place. It is not surprising, therefore, that the confrontation was so quick and ended in a stalemate, with both sides entrenched in their positions. “It was a short meeting, the minister did not make any overtures: he confirmed his position and we confirmed ours”, reported the confederal secretary of the Uil, Emanuele Ronzoni, “we understand that the minister, even if we had proclaimed the strike in a One day he would have had the same attitude and that worries us about the future, we told him that.”