In support of the Alcoa workers
While parliament is paralysed by days of sterile discussion of laws about the impunity to be conceded to the Premier, the streets are filling up with workers and unemployed people. Yesterday it was the turn of Alcoa. In the streets at their side was Italia dei Valori instead of Minister Sacconi or of a representative of the government, as usual (always assuming that they can allow themselves to come down to be among the demonstrators…).
Text of the intervention
Italia dei Valori for once would like to be close to the government if today it were to decide, instead of occupying Parliament with “ad personam” laws, to take measures in favour of Alcoa, and we will vote in favour. If however, one more time, they are just thinking of occupying parliament with the “legitimate impediment”, these workers will die of starvation.
We are here to say that never as in this moment is there the need for social cohesion, to take measures for the workers who tomorrow will no longer have anything to eat. Never as in this moment must the government devote its time to this issue.
It’s absurd that people have to lose their jobs because the government is waiting for manna to fall from heaven. There’s need for measures to be taken straight away and now.
Today, in Parliament, we could vote for a measure all together, Majority and Opposition, to give them the possibility of surviving. Today, however, Parliament has been occupied with doing a law for a single person.
This is social injustice, because the institutions are not dealing with the jobs that no longer exist, with families that don’t get to the end of the month, with the Alcoa workers, with the workers of Termini Imerese and with hundreds of thousands of people in difficulties. We are asking the government to decide to do this, before the social revolution explodes.
Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in
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