Stangata bills, CDLS: “The government pulls right”
Increases in electricity and gas: the Government pulls right and the CDLS Secretary Montanari warns: “We will not see inert the impoverishment of workers and pensioners”. The videocall called by the Secretariat of State for Labor dedicated to increases in domestic users took place last Tuesday. The meeting arose following the resolutions of the Authority for Public Services and Energy last December 14 with which the green disc was given to increase by 30% for gas and from 25 to 35%, based on the brackets of consumption, for electricity. The confrontation with the Government had also been solicited by the trade unions and consumer associations following strong protests from the same with respect to a significant increase, which are unfair for their position and which will put the less well off in difficulty.
INCREASES OF 300 EUROS PER YEAR IN LIGHT AND GAS
“More than a real confrontation – the Secretary General of the CDLS Gianluca Montanari points out – it was a matter of taking note of decisions already taken which, as we have been told, will be confirmed by the State Congress. Price increases ranging from 25 to 35% for electricity and gas only and which will produce annual increases of 250 euros more for gas and 80 euros for electricity. In practice, a bloodletting, not to mention that the increase in the price of drinking water will soon be decided “. “Underlining the inevitability of the increases – continues Montanari – to the schizophrenic dynamics of the energy markets and above all with the justification that over ten years the tariffs cannot, not justify the unacceptable need for a budget with the Government, agreed and coordinated between the various State Secretariats, to be held within a political table that takes into account all the reforms in the pipeline “.
THE INCREASES WEIGH ON THE CONTRACTUAL PARALSIS
The CDLS secretary then stresses the possible “inflationary flare-up generated by the increase in tariffs, with an increase in the prices of consumer goods and the inevitable repercussions on wages”. All this within a socio-economic scenario marked by “a contractual paralysis that now affects the entire world of work and with contracts that have been awaiting renewal for over ten years”. “If this is the method that the government intends to benefit from – underlines Montanari – not only the trade union, and the CDLS in particular, will not be able to share it, but the whole country will not follow it. If on the part of the majority and the Executive it is real to follow a path of shared will and will and constructive decision on reforms, the Confederation will be democratic as always it will be available, but if strength intends to continue on its way with, do not promote but take it. take the necessary initiatives to protect and mobilize citizenship, workers and pensions “.
INCREASES TO CALMIERATE FOR LOW INCOME
The CDLS secretary for the umpteenth time finally renews the request for “a coordinated table” to define the entity and the overall impact on household budgets of the reforms to be introduced, including costs for utilities and services and to the Government to “suspend increases in electricity and gas, also taking into account the need to introduce the necessary economic measures to mitigate their impact on families with lower incomes and on pensioners and citizens most in difficulty. And to calm the prices on consumer goods “.
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