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Historic 1sst May in Piazza San Mattia: Moccia celebrates the new Workers' Statute

Amid standing ovations and red flags, the Minister Secretary proclaims the reform as a turning point for the rights, protections, and dignity of millions of Istalian workers

Piazza San Mattia alle Mura in Romula crowded for the 1st May Grand Concert
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May 5663 (OOC: postdated)

ROMULA - This year's Labor Day in Istalia took on a particularly historic significance. In a Piazza San Mattia alle Mura packed with tens of thousands of workers and students, Minister Secretary of State Fabrizio Moccia, leader of the Democratic Socialist Party, took the stage at the grand concert to a rousing ovation. Holding a copy of the new Workers' Statute, approved by Parliament in early April after months of intense discussion with the social partners, Moccia publicly celebrated what he called "a turning point in the history of social rights in Istalia".

The new Statute represents a comprehensive and ambitious reform, designed to provide Istalian workers with unprecedented protections and guarantees. Its most significant provisions include the universal right to collective bargaining, the establishment of a minimum wage indexed to the cost of living, expanded safeguards against unfair dismissal, and the strengthening of the role of works councils and union representatives in corporate decision-making processes. The Statute also introduces a 35-hour workweek with no reduction in pay, the right to paid continuing education, and an extension of parental leave for both mothers and fathers, with full financial coverage. It includes stringent workplace safety regulations, with severe penalties for non-compliant companies, and special protection measures for precarious and seasonal workers. The text, strongly inspired by socialist and social-democratic principles, places work at its core as the foundation of human dignity and recognizes workers not only economic and regulatory rights, but also a direct and structural role in the country's economic life.

The Minister Secretary, who held the volume tightly throughout his speech, showed the version jointly published by the confederate unions, also funded by the governing parties, PSD, Greens and Party of New Communists, currently distributed free of charge in workplaces and industrial centers. Moccia claimed this milestone on behalf of all workers, declaring:

An era of protections, guarantees, fair wages, and strengthened bargaining power is dawning. When workers and the political forces that support them remain united and united, nothing can stop the path to social justice.

Continuing his remarks, Moccia extended his remarks to workers worldwide, emphasizing that "unbridled liberalism and unregulated globalism harm workers in every country without distinction". He then announced that he had recently mobilized to relaunch the international dialogue between left-wing parties and movements, an initiative he had already begun years earlier during his opposition activity, but had then slowed down, taking responsibility for it, for fear that it could degenerate into a political and geostrategic bloc dominated by socialist republics, some of dubious democratic standing, often prone to warmongering rhetoric toward non-socialist governments.

An organization that foments tension and division would end up harming workers, the Social Democrats, Democrats, and Greens from around the world.

For this reason, the Minister Secretary announced his intention to relaunch the proposal, already bandied about, of an international summit of democratic, socialist, and progressive movements from around the world to create a pluralist, non-maximalist structure, open to all forms of progress and social justice.

An organization at the service of individuals, peoples, and workers, not of states and their geopolitical objectives. A common home of progress, solidarity, and justice, open to the many and diverse expressions these values take on around the world.