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Bersani on La7: “Salaries are too low, but Meloni doesn’t want to pass a law on contracts in order not to harm her friends.”
Giorgia Meloni’s words at the Confindustria annual assembly and her attacks on the European Union? It’s her usual way of saving herself in a corner and not recognizing the problems. These are the words of Pier Luigi Bersani, who, as a guest on Otto e mezzo (La7), comments on the Prime Minister’s intervention at the Confindustria annual assembly, where she renewed her attacks on Europe, accused of being “too ideological.”
Presenter Lilli Gruber outlines the current picture: after three and a half years of Meloni’s government, Italy is registering the lowest growth in Europe, the collapse of purchasing power, industrial production in decline for over three years, rising inflation, record high tax pressure, and almost six million people in absolute poverty.
For Bersani, it’s a consolidated strategy of Meloni to evade her responsibilities: “It’s the same Europe as when we, having emerged from the Covid, were growing at more than 3%, among the first. Now we are last and those 26 European countries ahead of us have the same Europe.” A stark contrast, aggravated by the fact that Italy has received 200 billion euros from the PNRR.
The former minister adds: “You can’t hamstring Europe and then expect it to run. As long as Meloni continues to put herself in the way when Europe has to make a serious decision, whether it’s tariffs or the suspension of agreements with Israel, and as long as Meloni flirts with the current main enemy of Europe, that’s Trump, she mustn’t allow herself to criticize Europe.”
Bersani then focuses on the words of the industrialists, who highlighted a central problem: wages that are too low. Here, the proposal for a law on contracts enters the picture, which the former leader of the Pd believes is urgent but that the Meloni government does not intend to implement. In concrete terms, it’s a law on trade union and employer representation: the collective agreement signed by the most representative organizations (by number of members or votes in the RSU elections) should be binding on everyone, that is, on all workers in the sector. Today, instead, contracts are signed by minor unions, offering lower conditions, true dumping agreements.
These contracts pull down the entire wage level, creating unfair competition on labor costs. Real wages in Italy are down by 8% compared to three years ago, Bersani recalls. Yet, the Italian economy relies on 70% on domestic consumption: without adequate wages, consumption doesn’t restart and growth remains anemic. “When entrepreneurs tell you that wages are too low, you tell them, ‘Come here entrepreneur, let’s talk for a moment about a nice law on contracts’,” says Bersani. But the Prime Minister avoids the confrontation because it would mean “targeting those unions, those entrepreneurs, that stuff.”
The Bersani article on La7: “Wages are too low, but Meloni doesn’t want to pass a law on contracts to hit her friends” is from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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