The latest injury in Sassari dates back to a few days ago, when a worker was seriously injured at work while he was working on the demolition site, the area outside the Fiume Santo thermoelectric power plant. Then more deaths in Florence and Palermo.
This afternoon around 200 construction workers and metalworkers took to the streets of Italy, in Sassari, together with the CGIL (Fillea and Fiom) and Uil (Uilm and Feneal) trade unions, to demonstrate against deaths at work «caused by unqualified and of endless chains of contracts and subcontracts". They joined the two-hour national strike with a sit-in, to highlight the absence of rules causing accidents at work, «the failure to respect timetables, the right collective agreements, the maximum reduction in labor costs and safety, of too many false VAT numbers and the exploitation of work workers".
Workers from the construction sites of the former petrochemical plant in Porto Torres were present. A delegation made up of the CGIL secretaries, Massimiliano Muretti and Gavino Doppiu, and the Uil secretaries, Marco Foddai and Angela Lobrano for Uil, met the prefect of Sassari, Grazia La Fauci, who received the Uil flag “Zero deaths on the Work". The Government representative understood the reasons for the presidium, in particular the problem of the procurement code. For the unions, the critical issue at the source is the endless chains of subcontracting. «There is a lack of controls - they say - and the few resources allocated to inspectors, local health authorities and law enforcement agencies determine these consequences: 25 deaths in Sardinia in 2023. There is no implementation of the points-based driving license, there is impunity for who makes mistakes and the absence of the crime of homicide at work".
