In Erice, Uil Trapani confirms Macaddino and focuses on artificial intelligence for secure jobs and the future of young people.

The UIL Trapani territorial congress was held today in Erice. The Mazarese Tommaso Macaddino has been unanimously confirmed as general secretary.

The congress, titled “Guiding AI to Grow the Territory: The Future of People and Youth Between Work and Rights”, outlined the union's strategies for the coming years, focusing on technological innovation and the protection of the dignity of workers.

In his programmatic report, Tommaso Macaddino highlighted a disheartening statistic regarding the plague of accidents and illegality in the Trapani area, citing recent data provided by inspection bodies: in the province of Trapani, inspections carried out by INAIL, NIL, SPRESAL, and Law Enforcement revealed irregularities in 50 percent of the companies inspected.

“These numbers are unacceptable and tell us that there is still much to be done to consolidate a true culture of legality,” says Tommaso Macaddino. “Workplace safety cannot be seen as a budget item to save on, but a dividing line between civilization and barbarism.”

“For this reason, we will continue to bring the value of regular work directly into schools with the ‘Third Millennium’ project, because young people must be aware of their rights even before entering the job market.”

Macaddino also reaffirms the UIL's commitment to monitoring the use of new technologies: “Artificial intelligence must become a sentinel for safety on construction sites and in companies, never a tool for punitive surveillance. Our mission is to guide technological development towards sustainability that makes the quality of employment the only measure of progress.”

For Giovanni Angileri, national president of CAF UIL: “In an era of digital transition and bureaucratic complexity, our task is to humanize the relationship between institutions and people, ensuring that rights do not remain on paper. Here in Trapani, the UIL demonstrates how closeness to people is our greatest strength: we are the union that welcomes, listens, and solves the concrete problems of families, retirees, and workers, building day by day that ‘Union of People’ that is our guiding star.”

Critical situation also for youth issues: on the subject, Luisella Lionti, general secretary of UIL Sicilia, emphasized the need for stable investments to counter the emigration of young generations from the island: "The data on precariousness and youth emigration is alarming; a collective commitment from institutions is needed to transform innovation into dignified job opportunities here, in our land."

The conference was then concluded by the speech of Emanuele Ronzoni, organizational secretary of UIL Nazionale: "Here in Trapani, as in the rest of the country, the challenge is clear: we must not suffer innovation, but govern it. Artificial intelligence must be an ally to improve living conditions, reduce working hours while maintaining wages, and, above all, to enhance safety, becoming a ‘technological sentinel’ that helps us achieve the goal of ‘Zero Deaths at Work’. We will not allow technology to become a tool of control or new precariousness: the union is and will remain the bulwark of constitutional rights and the freedom to manifest, against any attempt to limit debate and dissent in our country."