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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".
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