Unions stated that salary raises for public servants included in the budget law are not enough to bridge the gap with high inflation rates in the past three years.
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00:00Nurses, teachers and thousands of other public and private sector employees in Italy took
00:05to the streets on Friday to protest the government's new budget plan.
00:10Workers say salaries are not high enough to keep up with inflation and that there's been
00:15a decline in spending power and government policies.
00:18The majority of the workers don't get 1500 euros.
00:23We are talking about employees, teachers, teachers, industrial workers.
00:29With this manoeuvre conditions will worsen up to 200 euros a year.
00:34And to think that only in the last year spending power has increased by more than 20%.
00:39These are data that clearly show that we need to provide answers to increase salaries and
00:44allow people who work to be able to face their needs.
00:47Unionists also ask for new hires and the stabilisation of employees with temporary contracts in hospitals
00:54and schools.
01:11But Premier Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly said that the core of her government's economic
01:16measures are tax cuts rather than subsidies.