Pharmaceutical and Biomedical. CGIL and Filctem: Useless catwalk to the Ministry. We need a discussion on industrial policies

Fedaisf editorial staff

24 July 2023

Pharmaceutical and biomedical: CGIL and Filctem, useless Mimit platforms, discussion on industrial policies is needed

“Up to now we have defined the tables convened in recent weeks by the Government and specifically by Mimit as interlocutors. Those of today on pharmaceuticals and biomedical can not even be called tables. It would have been more appropriate to speak of a conference or event, in which everyone, associations representing the two sectors, individual companies, and trade unions, was given the right to take the microphone in hand and intervene to represent their own interests, without any apparent objective of then arriving at a real comparison or some synthesis.

All in the presence of two ministers, a deputy minister and two undersecretaries”. Thus the confederal secretary of the CGIL, Pino Gesmundo, and the general secretary of Filctem Cgil, Marco Falcinelli (in the picture), at the end of the tables held this morning at Ministry of Business and Made in Italy.

“We understand that there have been discussions, but not with the workers' category organizations”, continue the union leaders, who say they are “concerned about the fate of the sector: we produce but have abandoned research and development. Some companies are bringing production closer to the centers where research is done. If the multinationals present in Italy did so, only 2/3 of the companies would remain in our country".

Furthermore, for CGIL and Filctem "the government must understand that coherence between industrial policies and health policies is fundamental, but health spending is constantly decreasing and this also affects the pharmaceutical sector".

“For these, as for the other productive sectors, it is necessary to start real and punctual comparisons, within a general framework of industrial policy. The catwalks – Gesmundo and Falcinelli reiterate – do not lead to any results for the development of the country, for the revival of employment and for the protection of workers”.

“We insist, we need a place for discussion and proposals, a real inter-ministerial negotiating table on the country's industrial policies to define objectives and resources, in support of employment and the strengthening of the manufacturing and industrial system, investing in the entire supply chain, from research to all stages of production. Therefore it is essential to strengthen and integrate health policies with industrial ones”, they conclude.

Joint release CGIL Filctem Cgil of 20 July 2023

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