Around two thousand people, coming from various cities in Calabria, took part in the demonstration which took place this morning in Crotone in conjunction with the general strike called by the CGIL throughout Italy to protest against the budget law that parliament is preparing to pass, judged to be unfair and which does not guarantee any improvement in terms of wages, pensions and healthcare. In particular in Calabria where development issues are even more pressing than in the rest of Italy, while within the region the Crotone area represents an emergency within an emergency, which is why the union chose the Ionian capital as the place in which to hold the demonstration.
«We chose Crotone for our only regional event, because it represents the evils of Calabria. Last city and province of Italy in almost all the rankings, after having experienced a progressive and rapid deindustrialisation which has left a serious problem of reclamation and health in the area, which also suffers from infrastructural delays and a profound employment crisis”, explained Enzo Scalese, general secretary of the CGIL for the vast area of the provinces of Catanzaro, Crotone and Vibo Valentia.
Arriving in the early hours of the morning on board fifteen buses that concentrated near the municipal stadium, the CGIL militants marched in procession through the main streets of the city. Behind the banner that opened the march was the regional secretary of the CGIL Gianfranco Trotta. In addition to the various category acronyms, such as Flm, Fiom, Slc currently involved in the difficult Telecontact dispute, there are also banners of Rifondazione Comunista and Arci. The procession then landed in Piazza Pitagora where the regional secretary Trotta and the national secretary of Filctem Marco Falcinelli held the final rallies of the event.