1,000 dead but govt reintroduced subcontracting - Landini

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 16 - Maurizio Landini, head of Italy's biggest and most leftwing trade union federation CGIL, on Friday commented on the Florence building site collapse that is feared to have killed six workers by saying that the government had seen 1,000 workers die last year and had nonetheless reintroduced allegedly unsafe sub-contracting.
    "In 2023 there were 1,000 deaths at work and often these accidents are produced by the system of subcontracting and the logic of tenders at the highest price," said the CGIL leader.
    "I want to recall that it was this government that amended the procurement code and reintroduced the subcontracting cascade", he said.
    "It is necessary for there to be an immediate reaction and I also think it is necessary to arrive at a general initiative next week, which I will also propose to the other unions, because it is no longer acceptable to continue dying at work." (ANSA).