(by Andrea Pinto) The general Leonardo #Tricarico, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force in 2006, was interviewed by Formiche.net on the current political crisis in light of the appointment of the new Minister of Defense. The retired General, from what emerged from the interview, does not seem to have appreciated the work of the current Minister of Defense, Elisabetta #Trenta. The former head of the Arma Azzurra did not like the position of the minister on some industrial programs, theF-35 first of all, but also the “dual use” address given to the sector and the propulsive thrust desired by the Trenta to the process of organizing military personnel, even in the absence of a law that regulates its subjects and contents.
It is recalled that the Minister of Defense, in compliance with the sentence 120/2018 of the Constitutional Court, with a ministerial decree authorized "motu proprio”The birth of the first Military Associations with a trade union character. The same have immediately begun to operate, favoring the enrollments of the military that have been very numerous up to now. "Clear sign of intolerance of the staff, not only of the "discontented", towards the assertion of their rights and which should be taken seriously by the top management and never underestimated as now ”He reports Sinibaldo Good, president of the Aeronautical Sim reached by telephone by the editors.
The Minister's Cabinet issued further circulars to provide guidelines and competences as well as to urge the General Staff to favor the mechanization of membership fees through the Mef-NoiPA salary platform. In the meantime, all the newly established trade union associations were also audited at the IV Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to provide the legislator with corrections and refinements to the “Corda” law proposal, which is still under examination.
Regarding the statements of General Tricarico, there was no lack of reaction from the most representative trade unions. The SIM Aeronautica together with the Joint Military Workers Union, the SIM Marina and the NSC Nuovo Sindacato Carabinieri (born from the unionists who left the SIM Carabinieri not sharing the "soft" line of the latter and who see the military law expert Giorgio Carta among the front rows), to the Coast Guard SIM and Military Free Representation, who in a joint note commented as follows:
"The impromptu statements, released on 29 August 2019 by General Leonardo Tricarico in an interview with" formiche.net ", generated an article entitled"The importance of choosing the Minister of Defense (well) ".
The writers OO. SS. intend to stigmatize the part in which the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force (?!) speaks of the need for "defuse the wide expectation created around trade union activity " and where he criticizes, however, the authorization to trade unions, made by the Trenta, in the absence of the law governing the latter and arrogating the right to enter into the merits of the matters to be dealt with at trade union level, a prerogative that belongs only to Parliament.
In pointing out that, indeed, the aforementioned retired senior officer is not alone in this repeated attack on trade union rights that has lasted for months (vds Bertolini, Camporini & Co), we invite him to carefully read the sentence 120/2018 of the High Court . We understand, however, very well the interests that led him to express the need to sterilize the expectations raised around trade union rights.
The strong powers that revolve around the Defense and the descending interests are put at risk if those who manage them, from tomorrow, were forced to confront those who up until now have been speechless.
THE JUDGMENTS ARE RESPECTED AND APPLY AND THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE THIRTY HAS DONE TO AUTHORIZE THE TRADE UNIONS AS PROVIDED FOR BY THE JUDGMENT. "