Top union leader Camusso slams govt

P(ANSA) – Rimini, May 6 – The head of Italy’s biggest trade union confederation CGIL, Susanna Camusso, on Tuesday set out four ‘challenges’ for the government of Premier Matteo Renzi and warned of the risk of decreased stakeholder participation in social policy decisions. Camusso challenged the government to focus on pensions, unemployment benefit, the working poor and taxation as it moves to simplify Italy’s unwieldy public administration and labour market laws. “These themes need to be put back at the centre of attention, building alliances, but in particular creating consensus, generating initiatives, mobilisation in all workplaces, all over the country,” she told the confederation’s XVII national congress in Rimini. “We have registered the impatience of several governments towards consultation and negotiation,” continued Camusso.BR”We are opposed to, and will continue to oppose, the idea of government self-sufficiency” leading to “a torsion of democracy towards governability to the detriment of participation”, she said.BRShe also reiterated her criticisms of the government’s labour reforms, say they will increase, rather than reduce, job insecurity /P
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