Ladini, for CGIL we are still in the Covid emergency and the police must check

For CGIL, we are still facing the Covid emergency. That’s right, according to the union led by Maurizio Landini, the pandemic is still so current that it is necessary to hire traffic police officers to ensure proper controls. It’s all laid out in black and white in one of the amendments to the government maneuver contained in the 51 pages deposited with the Senate Budget Committee. It needs to be read. It is almost at the end, on page 49. The amendment in question intends to add an article, 85 bis, to the text of the maneuver, which aims to increase hiring in Municipalities, excluding expenses from the limits currently established by law. Among the employees to be hired are traffic police officers.

To justify the increase in expenditure, the CGIL writes that these hirings of local police planned for the year 2024 are necessary “to ensure that checks are carried out on compliance with the measures linked to the continuation of the Covid-19 emergency and activities”. related to the post-emergency phase”. No further explanation is given as to why the emergency is believed to be “continuing”. Of course Covid has not disappeared, vaccines are still strongly recommended for the elderly and frail people, but it is It is indisputable that the situation has clearly changed compared to previous years.
That the CGIL counter-maneuver is somewhat out of touch with reality can also be seen from a non-secondary aspect.

The dream book that Landini would like to apply to the budget law has a considerable cost: 87 billion euros (just think that the bill presented by the government amounts to 24 billion). A monstrous number that would make any economist with common sense jump out of their chair. Bankruptcy would be a certainty. The union doesn’t seem to care. How to cover such an expense? For CGIL it’s simple: combating tax evasion. For Lino Ricchiuti, deputy head of the FdI Business Department, «at first reading it seems like a joke written by a mediocre comedian. Instead, it is reality. And it’s not funny. It’s a manual on how to put Italy into default.”