USB: Public Health Strike and National Mobilization Day Friday, January 28 to fight the Covid and get out of the economic crisis
The Draghi government has decided
that we must "learn" to live with Covid. The indiscriminate reopening of
all production activities has in fact put the virus back into
circulation in an overbearing way, with the complicity of companies that
have lowered the threshold of protection and prevention measures.
Choosing to put in first place the GDP rather than the health of the
population, returns the alarm of a new collapse of the national health
system, with the saturation of hospitals and sick people of all kinds
left without care and assistance.
In the budget maneuver, most of
the funding is diverted to support businesses and workers are left
without economic support tools. No funding for emergency income or for
the Covid redundancy fund, while hundreds of companies (especially in
crisis sectors) threaten mass layoffs. No support for "fragile" workers
or those who are quarantined in case of close contact with a positive.
In addition to the pandemic crisis, there has also been a resounding
increase in the prices of raw materials and energy products, with heavy
repercussions on utility bills and basic necessities, and with the
inevitable effect of further increasing disparity and inequality,
especially for the weakest sectors of the population.
After
almost two years of health emergency and faced with continuous evolution
of the virus and an increasing number of infections, it is even more
urgent that:
- Essential health personnel be hired to ensure continuity of service and relieve those who are subjected to grueling shifts;
- The creation of healthcare facilities and intensive therapies capable
of eliminating the risk of running out of available places or having to
reduce assistance for other pathologies;
- Hiring of personnel in
the school system and the creation of all those facilities necessary to
reduce crowding and ensure the continuation of teaching in attendance
but in safe conditions;
- To strengthen urban and interregional
public transport, increasing the number of vehicles in circulation, to
prevent the achievement of maximum capacity;
- Distribute free Ffp2 masks and encourage free plugging for all workers and students of all grades;
- We return to finance both the extraordinary redundancy fund for the
affected sectors and the emergency income as well as refreshments for
activities forced to periods of suspension or slowdown (tourism,
catering, sports and cultural activities, etc.);
- We return to
finance the quarantine and the equalization of illness for fragile
workers who can not operate in smart working, thus averting the risk of
being forced not to report contact with "positive", just not to lose
part of the salary.
The vaccination of a large part of the
population has unfortunately already proved to be an insufficient
measure to protect us from the unpredictable evolutions of the virus,
also in view of the fact that most of the world's population has not yet
been vaccinated, nor will they be for a long time yet. Instead of
continuing to favor the profits of big pharmaceutical companies, it is
time to eliminate patents on vaccines.
USB calls for Friday,
January 28 - coinciding with the strike of public health - a day of
national mobilization throughout Italy
The health of citizens comes before the economic interests of companies and banks
At work, at school, in hospitals, on public transport
THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND SAFETY
USB