CGIL leader Maurizio Landini said
Monday that the government's recent injunctions limiting strikes
called by trade unions were an attack on freedom.
The CGIL and the UIL union are challenging Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini's decision to issue an injunction limiting a
24-hour general strike they had called earlier this month, in
order to protest against the government's 2024 budget bill, to
four hours in the transport sector.
"We have challenged the injunction with Uil because it is
authoritarian and undemocratic," Landini said on a march in
Cagliari during a four-hour in Sardinia as part of a series of
protests against the budget.
"It had never happened in the democratic history of this country
that a government thought that it could infringe the right to
strike, which does not belong to trade union organisations but
to individual persons.
"Attacking it amounts to limiting people's freedom".
Grassroots unions belonging to the USB association, meanwhile,
have postponed a 24-hour public transport strike called for
Monday until December 15 so that they can challenge a separate
Salvini's injunction limiting their protest.
Salvini, however, said Monday that he has no intention of change
approach.
"I will continue to guarantee the right to strike because it is
in the Constitution," he said.
"But I am thinking about the other strike called for Friday,
December 15, in the run-up to Christmas.
"I will do everything the law allows me to do to minimize
disruption.
"If anyone thinks the can leave 20 million Italians stranded for
demands that are frequently political and not-union-related, I
will do everything the law allows me to do (to stop it)".
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