Italy: It is a massacre of workers: the bosses have blood on their hands.

Another massacre of workers, another very serious one, although the exact number is not yet known.

Certainly a very heavy toll, with several dead, injured and missing under the rubble of a warehouse under construction at Esselunga in Florence.

We send our condolences to the families and colleagues: at this time, this is the first consideration we can make, more families in mourning because companies think only of making money and not caring about the lives of the workers.

But right after that, anger is rising against a government that refuses to deal with the issue of safety in the workplace. We recall the statements made by Minister Calderone who, a few days after taking office, claimed that safety would be a priority:

We recall the convening of the social partners, the grand proclamations and then, in concrete terms the approval of new rules, such as those on contracts and sub-contrats of labour, which further weaken protection.

Even the latest proposal for judicial reform, presented a few days ago by the government does not address the need to introduce legislation that directly affects bosses when they are found to be responsible for workplace murders, demonstrating the total disregard of this political class towards the constant massacres at work.

Exploitation is the instigator of the murders of workers, an organisation of work imposed by the industrialists,

imposed by the owner, based on the contract system, on undeclared work and on the logic of maximum savings on rights and security, with the complicity of the governments.

The USB calls on all territorial and category structures to mobilise and call strikes in the different sectors and calls for mobilization against the government.

The list of mobilizations:

Monday 19, all day strike in the private sector for the province of Florence, sit-in in the Prefecture of Florence from 10 am.

Tuesday 20, 8-hour national strike in the private sector, from 10:00 a.m. sit-in at the Ministry of Labour in Rome

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