Meloni hits back at union chief over May Day cabinet meeting

(see related) (ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday hit back at Maurizio Landini, the leader of the Cgil, Italy's biggest trade union, after he criticised the decision to hold a cabinet meeting to approve a package of labour measures on May Day, arguing that it was a bad example.
    Meloni said Landini's comments were "'incomprehensible" saying the meeting was taking place on May Day to "honour workers" and show the government's commitment to providing solutions to their problems.
    She also suggested that, if the government should not work on May Day, by the same logic, the traditional big concert that trade unions stage in Rome's Piazza San Giovanni on the holiday should not take place either.
    "I would remind Secretary Landini that many people work on May 1, from waiters to doctors, the police and the technicians who make the concert in Piazza San Giovanni possible," the premier said.
    "Otherwise, we would have to organise the concert on another day". (ANSA).