Overview
- CGIL’s delegates in Florence approved a nationwide walkout for Friday 12 December, calling out all sectors and rallies in cities across Italy.
- Leader Maurizio Landini labels the budget “unjust” and presses for wage rises, fiscal drag restitution, contract renewals, and public investment in health and schools.
- Landini floats a 1% “solidarity contribution” on roughly 500,000 high-wealth households above €2 million to raise about €26 billion.
- Unity breaks: CISL schedules a Rome demonstration for Saturday 13 December, while UIL plans a separate Saturday mobilization pending a final green light next week.
- Political backlash intensifies as Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini mock the Friday date, and Lega allies study an amendment to require one-day-ahead strike declarations; local transit stoppages reported today are limited and unrelated to a national strike.