(ANSA)- Palermo, May 19 - Trade union leaders in Sicily
threatened Monday to call a general strike if as many as 30,000
workers on the regional government payroll do not receive months
of unpaid back wages.
"The situation in Sicily is dramatic and we are very worried
about the grave social, economic and administrative crisis in
which Sicily has plunged and over the future of the 30,000
workers who depend on the regional budget, who for months have
been without salaries," the secretaries of the Sicilian branches
of the CGIL, CISL and UIL labour union federations said in a
joint statement.
"The political world is indifferent to the needs of
citizens. For this reason we say 'enough' to power games that
make these workers effectively hostages," the union leaders said
in a statement.
"The time has come to say 'enough'. We are proclaiming a
state of agitation and, in the absence of any response by the
regional government, we will announce a general mobilisation,"
the unions' statement said.
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