The Usb pensionati and the Federazione del Sociale demonstrated in front of many post offices throughout the country, distributing leaflets and burning a three-euro note, the amount of the inflation adjustment for minimum pensions provided for in the budget law.
In front of the Ministry of Labour there was a flash mob with the burning of the note to say no to the government's three euro handout as a recovery of the purchasing power of minimum pensions, which not only offends the dignity of pensioners, but also leaves the real conditions of all pensions unchanged in the face of a 17% increase in the cost of living in the last three years.
The initiatives come in the perspective of the general and generalised strike of 13 December, which the USB Pensionati has joined, against the war economy of the Meloni government, which is shifting the costs to the workers and pensioners by reducing the welfare state.
No to poverty wages, no to poverty pensions
Raising the minimum pension to 1,000 euros
Abolition of the calculation of contributions
No to the privatisation of the public pension system with the theft of severance pay and its transfer to pension funds, with the renewal of silent consent.
Reducing the tax burden on pensions to the European average
Elimination of waiting lists and home care in a free and universal public system, as required by the Constitution.
These are the watchwords of the initiative against state handouts.
USB Pensioners
