"The government is making wrong choices on labor and tax policies," Maurizio Landini, secretary general of the CGIL, said in an interview with la Repubblica. "It continues without a design, with non-structural interventions. It makes us retreat on the PNRR. He made a wrong Def that cuts government spending. And it proceeds only with propaganda shots. Workers are fed up with wages that are too low and that they are the ATM for those who make big profits and do not pay taxes. We will mobilize. We will do so, together with Cisl and Uil, with three interregional events on 6 May in Bologna, 13 in Milan and 20 in Naples. And we will keep going until we have answers to our demands from the government. Even with the strike if necessary."

Mr Landini continued: "We want to increase wages. We demand a 5-point cut in the tax wedge. And fiscal drag, the adjustment of deductions to inflation, to ensure real increases in wages that are too low. We ask to overcome precariousness instead of proceeding with vouchers and liberalization of fixed-term contracts without cause. We demand a tax reform that heals inequalities that are no longer acceptable with work taxed at 40%, real estate income at 21%, financial income up to 20%, income of the self-employed at 15%. We want a real pension reform. We ask not to cut, as the government does in the Def, health and public schools. The government is dismantling the NHS. There are waiting lists of years. And to access health services too often you have to pay the private. Doctors and nurses are exhausted. We need an extraordinary hiring plan."

Finally, the issue of the falling birth rate which, according to the secretary of the CGIL "today is the result of wrong policies of the last 15-20 years. There are fewer children because we are the country with the lowest female employment rate, the highest precariousness, fewer kindergartens, fewer schools, fewer services. Without housing policies to support the choices of young people. Without financing the law on non-self-sufficiency, while the average life span is getting longer. To say that you can reverse such a profound process with some tax incentive is to fool people."