Referendum, Count: "6 Million Workers Are Poor. Those Who Say They Do Not Vote Want to Keep Them in This Condition"

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"I think that democracy is a concept that needs to be fed every day, it means participation and participate enthusiastically in such important appointments" says Giuseppe Conte, president of the 5 Star Movement, talking about referendums in the margins of the European General States of the culture of sustainability. "These referendums embrace the whole world of work," he adds, "that today is in great suffering. We have 9% of those who work full …

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The referendum seems, at first sight, a noble instrument to change the rules of work. But beware: the reality is much more intricate. Rights and duties of those who work and of those who work are in need of clear rules, applicable, anchored to the present. Not of ideological battles nor of nostalgic slogans launched by politics, which often uses work as a stage for their propaganda. We are no longer in the 1970s: Italy is not only made of large …