Cgl against Cgil in Sassari. Salvatore Frulio, Antonio Rudas and Giovanni Piras have built a website “How to Manage Layoffs”, to remember their story of being expelled from the left-wing union in 2017 and recently readmitted by the Labor judge. An event they spoke about today in a press conference at the Hotel Carlo Felice .
"The site, launched a few days ago," says Rudas, the only one of the three to be fired, "has already been seen by 160,000 people."
From online to live confrontation, the trio's vicissitudes are explained clearly. "They kicked us out," Rudas continues, "for political reasons. We fought the trade association for years because we no longer recognized its mission."
A battle that, they argue, was fought from within and in opposition to a union line that they did not share. "They flattened out," Piras says. "For us, the union was not a workplace, as many understood it, or an ideological positioning, but, precisely, a mission."
There are many disputes that the reinstated would have faced differently, from the Fornero law to the Jobs Act, but, in particular, what emerges is a substantial difference of views on key aspects.
"We have always contested - Frulio declares - that the unions receive public funding. How can you have a dispute with those who subsidize you? If the union is reduced to providing services, as it is now, it disappears".
There is much criticism of the way green chemistry is managed in Porto Torres. «It was a filthy agreement - attacks Rudas who then analyses the state of health of the Cgil - This organisation is dead, it is collapsing at a national level».
In the hotel room there are three empty chairs, those of those who, according to Frulio, Rudas and Piras, have advocated the cause of their exclusion . «We had invited them so that they could be given a counter-argument to our words. Which was not granted to us».
