6 bn not enough for pensions (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 28 - The six billion euros the government has earmarked for pension interventions over the next three years "are not enough", the head of the UIL trade union, Carmelo Barbagallo, said after talks with the government Wednesday. "And let's not forget the 'esodati' (exiled ones) and the rest of the platform," he said. Barbagallo said some "good work" had been done "but it's not finished". He said that talks must continue. UIL is Italy's third-largest trade union federation, of Socialist extraction. The countless esodati were left without jobs or pensions by a controversial 2011 pension reform bearing the name of then labour minister Elsa Fornero.
    The government has been helping them in batches but there are still thousands left.