Corteo CGIL, Schlein meets Landini: "a battle that is very close to our hearts"

Corteo CGIL, Schlein meets Landini: "a battle that is very close to our hearts"

The head of the procession for the demonstration organized by the CGIL and a network of secular and Catholic associations for the defense of health and the relaunch of the National Health Service, which started from Piazza della Repubblica in Rome, arrives on June 24th in Piazza del Popolo.
The stage was set up here from where the speeches took turns, under the slogan with the reference to article 32 of the Constitution on the right to health.

The general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, closed.

Near the stage Elly Schlein met the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini.

The two greeted each other with a handshake and a hug. “We are happy to participate in this square in defense of universal public healthcare. A battle that is very close to our hearts and which the Democratic Party is also mobilizing because there is a lack of resources and the government is choosing to cut services to people. The waiting lists are too long, there is a lack of staff, there is a lack of general practitioners, we do not see the attention needed for the care of people. Alongside this there is also a square that insists on workplace safety. It is a majority that often talks about safety but never talks about safety at work. We cannot continue to die of work and internships in Italy. We want more resources on training, prevention, the use of new technologies to make workplaces safer and the hiring of those suitable to be labor inspectors who have already taken the competitions and are waiting to be hired".

“We are close to citizens, the right to health is fundamental, we are close to healthcare personnel. It seems that we have not learned any lessons from the pandemic, and we are selling it with pnrr funds that risk not being spent. We will not accept that, as in the budget law, healthcare continues to act like Cinderella, we are returning to the worst moments of the past". The said it president of the M5s, Giuseppe Conte, on the sidelines of the CGIL demonstration in Rome.

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“The CGIL and around a hundred associations, young people and pensioners, are in the streets because they want to defend the right to health, even at work, and ask for the relaunch of the National Health Service. No more cuts. We need to invest and not lose even a single euro of the Pnrr, to make hires and guarantee the services in the area which are decisive". Thus the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, from the demonstration for health and healthcare. “There are 4 million people who don't get treatment because they don't have the money. It is not acceptable. The situation is exploding. They are the same ones who kept the country afloat during the pandemic", Landini remarks.

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“The square is open to all those who think about defending the Constitution and changing the country. We do not respond to this or that government or party, we have our proposals. It is the government that is not discussing with the unions, we are not prejudiced, it is this government that is prejudiced. And we are not listened to" he added underlining that "strikes are not threatened, they are proclaimed when necessary, if there are no answers, if the government does not listen to us. We'll see but we have no intention of stopping until we get results.".

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“Since ancient times, the union has always thought that if there are resources that Europe makes available to make investments, they should all be used because we need them. So I really don't understand certain discussions." This is how Landini responds to a question on the use of the ESM also for healthcare.