Dearest Vittorio, I’m Domenico, close to 44 years of age and I’m a temporary teacher. I have been buying the newspaper since I was in high school and since you were its director, for me you represent journalism par excellence. My “love” for the newspaper continues even now that I find myself behind the desk purchasing a copy every day. I would like your opinion on a current issue, that of the many strikes organized by the unions (by which I do not feel represented), strikes which are only a pretext to attack our government which, as you have mentioned many times, is doing very well and which paralyze the our country. Just today I read in the newspaper that another fifteen strikes are planned for December, we can’t take it anymore! A hug
Domenico Fiore
Dear Domenico, I thank you for the kind words you dedicate to me and for the respect you have for me. It makes me happy to know that you have been buying the newspaper since you were in high school. It would be a habit to be rediscovered, it would be good to introduce young people to reading newspapers, something that is no longer used. You teachers could perhaps open debates in class on any current topic, inviting students to propose a discussion on an article from any newspaper that has aroused their interest. I believe that this type of activity could entertain children but also and above all encourage them to develop a critical spirit with which to approach the world as well as the desire to keep informed not through social networks but by discovering newspapers as a source. Domenico, think about it and let me know if my idea was appreciated by you and your students.
As regards strikes, the absolutely obstructionist nature of those underway in recent weeks appears more than evident. Once again, little thought is given to workers and much to personal or party interests. All of this – obviously – to the detriment of citizens, who suffer various types of inconveniences, delays, inefficiencies, which make everyday life even more difficult.
The right to strike is sacred, but must be balanced with other constitutional rights that cannot be suppressed as Landini declares war on Salvini. I am thinking of the right to movement, therefore to use public transport, the right to work, compromised because citizens, to get to the office or factory, use trams, buses, trains suspended during the protest, I am thinking of the right to health, to education.
The list is copious. We live in a community in which one disservice inevitably determines others, this is the reason why the right to strike must be exercised within precise limits and never harming the freedoms of others or in any case harming them temporarily and not in such an extensive and repetitive way.
What will happen is that we will take to the streets to protest against Landini and these continuous strikes. In this case, I will be the first to lead the procession, even me who has never been in the procession. I swear, I would.
Italians want to get busy, to work, to take their children to school without too many problems, to go home, to do the shopping, not to be stuck in traffic all day, in a congested, paralyzed city, in ferment for yet another lockout planned by self-referential unions which, as you yourself testify, do not represent the workers at all but only the demands of those who preside over them. Landini’s war is an individualistic war waged against an executive which, however, is loved by the vast majority of Italians, who say they are satisfied with the government’s measures as much as they are dissatisfied with Landini’s initiatives.
As for me, I have never gone on strike.
The desire to make myself useful and to work hard has always prevailed in me and I have never been seduced by unions and corporations, which I have always looked at with a certain distrust. Do you know what the right is behind the right to strike? The right to work, perhaps the most important.
Landini, let us work in peace and don’t bother us.