(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 23 – A 25-year-old man was crushed to death by a steel girder while engaged in construction work in Trentino Friday, the latest in a long string of accidental workplace fatalities in Italy that has spurred government action.
Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government was allocating 650 million euros in new money to boost workplace health and safety before the May Day national holiday.
Meloni said in an interview published in Corriere della Sera that “it is unacceptable that every day is punctuated by deaths and injuries”.
The government met trade unions earlier this month to discuss the issue of health and safety.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said that work-related deaths had risen by 8.37% to 205 in the first quarter of the year.
Daniela Fumarola, the leader of the CISL trade union, said workplace safety should be the “first commandment” of a new labour “pact” involving businesses, unions and public institutions.
“What we are facing is a massacre, not an emergency,” said Maurizio Landini, the leader of the CGIL trade union.
“People continue to die because health and safety is considered a cost.
“Profit counts, not the person.
“The person has become a machine that can be bought and sold, a price to pay to this model.
“So it is clear that a model of doing business, of running the market, that should be changed.
“The person should go back to being central and a series of measures that are not being taken are needed”. (ANSA).
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Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government was allocating 650 million euros in new money to boost workplace health and safety before the May Day national holiday.
Meloni said in an interview published in Corriere della Sera that “it is unacceptable that every day is punctuated by deaths and injuries”.
The government met trade unions earlier this month to discuss the issue of health and safety.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said that work-related deaths had risen by 8.37% to 205 in the first quarter of the year.
Daniela Fumarola, the leader of the CISL trade union, said workplace safety should be the “first commandment” of a new labour “pact” involving businesses, unions and public institutions.
“What we are facing is a massacre, not an emergency,” said Maurizio Landini, the leader of the CGIL trade union.
“People continue to die because health and safety is considered a cost.
“Profit counts, not the person.
“The person has become a machine that can be bought and sold, a price to pay to this model.
“So it is clear that a model of doing business, of running the market, that should be changed.
“The person should go back to being central and a series of measures that are not being taken are needed”. (ANSA).
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