Work, Sergio Mattarella: "Social justice essential for peace, stability and progress"

"There can be no lasting peace without fair wages, without social protection, without respect for trade union freedoms". This was stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, speaking in Turin at the Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year of the School of Development of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, "very appropriately dedicated to three concepts that are intimately linked: learning, social justice and, precisely, peace". Principles, those recalled by the Head of State, "which are also the basis of our civil coexistence. The Italian Constitution clearly outlines a model of society in which work is at the same time the foundation of the Republic, a tool for personal fulfillment and a lever, precisely, of social justice". Mattarella recalled that "since its birth, in the aftermath of the First World War, the ILO has linked its mandate precisely to peace, placing it in direct relation to social justice. The original intuition is still confirmed as being extraordinarily relevant today".