Cost-of-living protests: ⚡️🇮🇹🚨USB has contested the agreement signed by CGIL, CISL, and UIL...

⚡️🇮🇹🚨USB has contested the agreement signed by CGIL, CISL, and UIL with employer associations, accusing it of consolidating concertation and narrowing the space for independent unionism.

🔻 The union criticizes the parameter used to adjust wages for inflation, which excludes the increase in imported energy prices from the calculation, and the inclusion of welfare in the overall economic treatment, arguing that these measures do not guarantee a real recovery of workers' purchasing power.

🔻 In the same statement it is deemed contradictory to proclaim a general strike against the cost of living after signing an agreement with employer associations on the contractual model, while recognizing the legitimacy of the mobilization and the workers' reasons.

🔻 Separately, USB announced a strike on November 20 in the School, University, Research, and AFAM sectors, in support of student mobilizations.