In Sardinia , 25 people will die at work in 2023 . The numbers , according to Inail , have been showing a plus sign for 3 years. So throughout the country, including the island, the unions are taking to the streets to ask for a concrete commitment from the Government . Tomorrow from 10am to 1pm in Cagliari in Piazza Palazzo , a regional demonstration organized by Fillea and Feneal, Fiom and Uilm will take place - in conjunction with similar initiatives organized in the rest of Italy on the occasion of the two-hour strike at the end of the shift proclaimed by Fillea and Feneal, Fiom and Uilm CGIL and UIL and from the categories of builders and metalworkers . A delegation will bring the demands of the united unions to the prefect, in the hope of stopping the massacre in the workplace.
The aforementioned report in Sardinia shows worrying data , with 18 deaths in the workplace and the others in transit, one more than last year. Also in 2023, reports of occupational diseases increased by 7 percent compared to 2022 and there was a worrying increase, +23.5 percent, in injuries to very young workers, up to 14 years old and +11.25 percent of workers between 14 and 19 years old. Moving the analysis beyond the sea border, in Italy a worker dies every six hours, 1,041 reports of fatal accidents in the workplace were received by Inail throughout 2023 but the victims are 1,466 according to the National Observatory of Bologna, which also takes into account cases in which there is no insurance. Unfortunately, the official numbers go hand in hand with the precariousness of work and with the irregularities of rules and contracts and the spread of the black market. And they do not take into account the many unreported accidents, perhaps not serious but which signal the weakness of the system, an alarm bell which should lead to greater attention, in terms of prevention and controls, and the diffusion of a safety culture which is struggling to establish itself.
In addition to the one in Cagliari, there will also be a demonstration in Piazza d'Italia Italia in Sassari , from 4pm to 5.30pm, where the meeting with the prefect is scheduled. In Olbia instead, press conference at the headquarters of the Chamber of Labor in via del Piave at 3pm . In the afternoon, assemblies in industrial areas throughout the island. The CGIL and UIL mobilization reignites with force after the collapse of the concrete slab in the Esselunga construction site in Florence which killed five workers, an accident that reveals how dangerous the system of cascade subcontracting in the private sector is, introduced by the government in office in latest amendment to the procurement code already contested by the unions.
(Unioneonline/vf)