The "drift" towards labour having
ever fewer rights is worrisome, the Italian Bishops' Conference
(CEI) said Thursday. It said a lack of work in Italy "leads ever
more people, scared by the prospect of losing it or not finding
it, to share the idea that nothing is as it was before: dignity,
rights, health end up in the second row," the CEI said in a
message for Labour Day. "This is a worrisome drift caused by the
persistence of a steadily severe economic crisis" and by
widening unemployment, it said. CEI added that the south of
Italy must be taken back from the mafia if the north is to be
truly prosperous and said Italy cannot afford to lose the talent
of its young people by letting them emigrate. It said "Italy has
been stuck for too long, now's the time to support those who
have lost or are losing their jobs". According to the CEI, the
workplace must be an "expression of dignity, a humanising
place".
photo: CEI chief Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco
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