The regional demonstration for the general strike called by the CGIL on 12 December will be held in Crotone. After last October 25th when over 200 thousand people protested against the financial measure in Rome, the CGIL, which remained unheard, decided to proclaim a new general strike.
Many themes make up the initiative’s platform including requests, proposals and claims.
In particular, the union is calling for an increase in wages and pensions, to stop raising the retirement age, to say no to rearmament and to invest in healthcare and education. The CGIL calls for real industrial and tertiary policies, a fair and progressive tax reform.
Important threads that heavily impact the quality of life of the country and which have an even greater weight in Calabria. Our region confirms itself as one of the areas with the lowest salaries and pensions in Italy. All this while young people continue to leave and move away, leaving behind an increasingly older region that is heading towards desertification.
For CGIL Calabria it is urgent to reverse course, invest in work and employment and stipulate a pact for Calabria to stem the bleeding of young people who leave this land in search of more opportunities and more services.
This is why the union led by Gianfranco Trotta proposes incentives on labor policies to stem the phenomenon, in addition to tools to bring back those who already work outside.
The commitment to the elderly must also be important. Currently in Calabria they make up 24 percent of the population and by 2050 they will be 36 percent. There are 150 thousand non-self-sufficient people and the current policies for them are not adequate!
The choice to hold the regional event in Crotone is not accidental. Crotone has become, despite itself, the symbol of deindustrialization, of the lack of infrastructure, of a long history of toxic waste and reclamation. But also an important center penalized by transport, with a severely limited right to mobility. It is from here that we want to start again to demand economic, wage, social and industrial policies that relaunch the country and Calabria.
On December 12th let’s take to the streets and make ourselves heard!