Unions to hold rally for work safety on Oct 22

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 7 - Italy's three main trade union federations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, will hold a rally in Rome on Saturday October 22 to demand more action to raise work safety amid a long spate of fatal workplace accidents, CISL General Secretary Luigi Sbarra said Friday.
    "We must stop the daily massacre in workplaces," he said.
    "It is a serious and unacceptable phenomenon.
    "We can't allow three deaths per day to become a sad statistical figure, almost an ineluctable destiny in our country".
    Sbarra said work safety "must become a priority of the country" and said the October 22 rally would be preceded by week-long assemblies in factories and territorial rallies.
    Outgoing Premier Mario Draghi's government has taken a series of actions to raise workplace safety but the spate of workplace deaths has continued unabated. (ANSA).