Chigi meeting with unions on budget postponed to Nov. 5

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 29 - A meeting with Italy's trade unions on the 2025 budget in Giorgia Meloni's office at Palazzo Chigi in Rome has been postponed from Monday, November 4 to Tuesday, November 5 at 16:45, based on a change in the government's agenda, union sources said Tuesday.
    Unions CGIL, CISL and UIL are expected to answer the call.
    The leader of CGIL, Italy's biggest and most leftwing union federation, Maurizio Landini, has threatened a general strike over the government's budget moves.
    Also attending the meeting will be the rightwing union UGL, as well as other smaller unions.
    The full list of labour leaders is: CGIL Maurizio Landini, CISL Luigi Sbarra, UIL Pierpaolo Bombardieri, UGL Francesco Paolo Capone, Cisal Francesco Cavallaro, Confedir Michele Poerio, Confintesa Francesco Prudenziano, Confsal Angelo Raffaele Margiotta; the president of Cida Stefano Cuzzilla and of Ciu Gabriella Ancora; and Francesco Rizzo of the national executive of the USB grassroots confederation. (ANSA).