1 May: work forms l’Italy. Starting from Art.1 of the Constitution

The provincial Acli of Cagliari participate in the campaign promoted by the national leadership on the occasion of the Workers' Day.

Work, as written in the article 1 Constitution, is the foundation of Italy, and can become the key to the exit from the crisis and the restart of the whole country.

Workers' Day falls this year in a dramatic situation for our country. To the health emergency, marked by the numbers of the dead and the hospitalized, you're adding up the social emergency with hundreds of thousands of businesses and businesses stopped, millions of workers on redundancy, unemployed and unemployed, especially, new poor.

After the end of World War II, the prostrate and defeated country found its unity around the Constitutional Charter to begin reconstruction. Even today there is a need to start again from our fundamental charter, right from its initial lines: it is the link with the work that founds Italy, that shapes our personal and collective daily lives.

"The 1 May must make us think – says the president of Acli Cagliari Mauro Charter –, Sardinia must also rethink a socio-economic and labour organisational system that put the person at the centre of everything, in a context of solidarity, community cooperation. A fair and equitable development will be needed, a different relationship with time and the environment #8217, a new responsible and coordinated approach between the components of the economic system and above all a process of positive integration between the public, private sector and third sector".

The challenge is to intervene in the emergency and design the future of the country, laying the groundwork for a new growth and development plan. A real investment must be made on school and training, because we will work in a context that is changed and still conditioned by the existence of the virus. The labour market is changing, projected more and more towards new forms, including smart working, as the experience of these months shows, and in general the role of technology, as the applications of the Industry demonstrate 4.0. In this context, we will have to monitor carefully the weakest and most fragile. Physical distance risks becoming an economic distance, then social and finally human.

On the 65th anniversary of the establishment of St Joseph's Day, we also want to reappropriate the sacredness of work, making our own the words of Pope Francis: "Work a greases us with dignity, makes us look like God, who has worked and works, always acts; gives the ability to keep themselves, their own family, to contribute to the growth of their nation".

Only through work will we be able to reconnect the bonds of our communities, refound the social pact and restart Italy. We will do so together with all the organizations that care about the fate of the workers, starting with trade unions, Cgil, Cisl and Uil, we share the document and the information campaign.

Cagliari, 30 April 2020