Diapositiva 1

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INTRODUCTION TO THE YOUTH POLICIES DEPARTMENT OF
CGIL AND ITS CAMPAIGN GIOVANI NON DISPOSTI A
TUTTO
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A short intro to CGIL

• CGIL, the Italian General Confederation of
  Labour, is
• the oldest Italian union (founded in 1908)
• the most representative, about 6 million people
  membership (workers and pensioners)
• with a double structure 13 workers federations
  and 134 regional and local sections (camere del
  lavoro) all over Italy.
• In 2009 a Youth Policies Department was created
  at national level in order to raise awareness
  about youth policies in our country and also at
  regional level and in many National Workers
  Federation (including FP, the National Federation
  of Public Workers).

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• The Youth Department of the CGIL
• works with the National secretary in charge of
  Youth Policies
• organises events and initiatives about the youth
  condition in Italy and about the labour market
• collaborates with the different Federations on
  the implementation of specific strategies in this
  field
• launched a Youth campaign in order to raise
  awareness about the condition of young people in
  the labour market
• meets once a year in a National Gathering and
  several times a year in specific meetings with
  all youth representatives at local level.

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• The principal activity of the Youth Department
  was the launch of the Campaign NON
• Giovani Non Più Disposti a Tutto
• (young people not anymore ready for everything)
• The main message of the title of this campaign is
  to underline that young people should not be
  ready anymore to accept the humiliating
  conditions to access the labour market and the
  precarious jobs that are offered to them and
  which do not allow them to build their own
  present and future.
• The campaign was addressed not only to CGIL
  itself and its representatives and delegates at
  all various levels in order to increase awareness
  inside the confederation, but also to the general
  public.

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• INDEX OF ACTIONS
• Several actions on specific issues were created
  after the launch of the campaign
• National Gathering Santa Impazienza, Tuscany -
  July 2010
• Official launch of the Campaign, Rome November
  2010
• National demonstration in Rome 27 November 2010
• Precarious Santa Claus December 2010
• No more fake internships February 2011
• Foundation of the Committee Our time is now.
  Life wont wait. and national demonstration
  against precarious work 9 April 2011
• General Strikes 2011
• 2 National Gathering It is our time, Tuscany -
  June 2011
• National demonstration of public workers, Rome
  8 October 2011
• Rights. No more Words campaign against
  precarious jobs - December 2011

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• 1st National Youth Gathering
• Santa Impazienza
• Tuscany, July 2010
• The title of the first national gathering of the
  youth department of CGIL was Saint Impatience!
  Work and rights now!.
• In Italian the expression Saint Patience is an
  exclamation inviting to be patient. By the slogan
  Santa Impazienza we meant the impatience of young
  people in our country to have decent work and
  life conditions now.
• The gathering was attended by young workers,
  delegates, youth policies representatives,
  students organizations who daily collaborate with
  CGIL.
• Workshops and debates with external guests have
  taken place and a final report was produced after
  the event.

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LAUNCH OF THE CAMPAIGN ROME , NOVEMBER 2010

• In the first phase the website www.giovanidisposti
  atutto.com was launched and anonymous indecent
  jobs advertising were published.
• Job ads were disseminated on the web and also as
  street posters.
• 3. In the following days the NON symbol was
  stuck to the posters for the second phase of the
  campaign. The objective is to say that young
  people are not accepting such jobs anymore!
• 4. The new website www.nonpiu.it is launched and
  the campaign unveiled. Thousands of comments are
  posted on the wall of the website.

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CAMPAIGN MATERIALS 1

• Financial Group searches MBA graduates available
  to prepare coffee and dog-sit for their boss.
• Leading company in consumption goods searches for
  good-looking female graduates available to get
  consumed.

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CAMPAIGN MATERIALS 2

• Advertising Agency searches for junior account
  with parents ready to support him financially
  lifelong.
• Computer Group searches for recent graduates with
  honours, but without dignity.

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PRESENTATION OF THE CAMPAIGN

• A flash mob was organised in front of the
  Parliament and a press conference with CGIL
  Secretary General unveiled that the campaign
  organisers was the Youth Policies Department of
  CGIL.

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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN ROME - 2010
The Youth representatives of CGIL participated in
the national rally in Rome on November 27, 2010.
The title of the demonstration was Future
belongs to young people and work and was
organised by CGIL in order to raise awareness
about youth unemployment and the absence of a
political strategy to tackle it.
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PRECARIOUS SANTA DECEMBER 2010

• In December 2010 the youth delegates of CGIL
  disguised as Santa Claus distributed leaflets in
  the most crowded shopping streets in Italy in
  order to raise awareness about job exploitation
  of sales assistants in that particular period.

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• NO MORE BOGUS INTERNSHIPS
• (NON STAGE TRUFFA)
• February 2011
• A specific campaign on internships/traineeships
  was launched in order to prevent illegal use of
  internships.
• Ironic ads were posted on the web and appeared
  simultaneously on the walls of
• 14 different locations in the whole country
• Big supermarket offers
• unpaid one-year internships for interns ready to
  collect nothing
• Prestigious theaters search for
• trainees with priceless ideas,
• and others

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COMMITTEE AGAINST PRECARIOUS JOBS AND
DEMONSTRATION 9 APRIL 2011

• The Youth Policies Dept. of CGIL becomes a member
  of a national committee against precarious
  condition of life and work. the members of this
  Committee are youth groups of political parties,
  students, free-lance workers associations, and
  interns associations.

The national demonstration Our time is now. Life
wont wait on April 9, 2011. Thousands of young
people participate in the events throughout the
country.
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GENERAL STRIKES MAY AND SEPTEMBER

• The youth policies groups in all regions
  continued working together and organised the
  participation of young workers in the two general
  strikes against the policies of the government in
  terms of crisis which took place on May 6 and
  September 6 2011.

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2 NATIONAL GATHERING OUR TIME IS NOW TUSCANY
- JULY 2011
The gathering was attended by young workers,
delegates, youth policies representatives,
students organizations who daily collaborate with
CGIL and took place in Pisa in July 2011. A
debate with young leaders from Egypt, Tunisia,
Spain and Italy was organized in order to share
the different mobilizations that were taking
place at that time in the Mediterranean area
(indignados, Maghreb and Mashreq youth
representatives). Representatives of the 9
April Committee participated in the event in
order to keep collaborating with these
associations.
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NATIONAL DEMOSTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKERS ROME 8
OCTOBER 2011

• After the general strike, the public workers
  federations of CGIL (FP and FLC - school and
  universities workers) organized a demonstration
  in Rome to fight against the austerity measures
  of the government which were approved by the
  Parliament with budgetary cuts to the public
  sectors.
• Before the day of the demonstration a specific
  campaign aimed at precarious workers in the
  public sector was launched. Precarious workers
  are the main victims of austerity measures in the
  funding to public service and in particular
  cutting precarious jobs.
• The slogans of the campaign focused on the pride
  of being public workers, even though on a
  temporary basis. The State is myself! The
  contribution of precarious workers ensured the
  existence and functioning of public services in
  many sectors, including education.

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RIGHTS. NO MORE WORDS CAMPAIGN DECEMBER 2011

• The campaign Rights. No more words against
  precarious jobs was launched with a flash mob.
• Amateur cooks offered people dishes full of the
  worst clichés about work and young people.
• We wanted to show our disapproval against
  rhetoric on young people and on precarious jobs.
• Precarious jobs wont be defeated with rhetoric
  but with
• Social security
• Rights
• Trade union rights
• Collective agreements.
• After the launch of the campaign CGIL youth
  departments organised meetings to present and
  discuss the proposals of CGIL to overcome
  precarious jobs and other initiatives in many
  Italian cities.

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NO MORE BOGUS INTERNISHIPS CAMPAIGN - 2
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WE ARE THE GUARANTEE!CAMPAIGN ON THE YOUTH
GUARANTEE

• CGIL launched a specific campaign for the
  implementation of the Youth guarantee in Italy.
• The campaign was launched with a petition which
  could be signed on a web platform and put forward
  its own proposal for the implementation of the
  measures at national level.