(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - Maurizio Landini, leader of Italy's biggest and most leftwing trade union CGIL, on Friday accused Premier Giorgia Meloni of "bullying" after she said Thursday that she had to work although ill since she did not have any union rights.
    "I think it's an act of bullying and for someone who is Prime Minister, sometimes, before saying things, it's better to think about it because put in these terms it's an attack on those who see those rights being questioned every day", said Landini upon his arrival at the local public transport demonstration in Porta Pia in Rome, amid a local transport strike that has crippled Italy.
    Meloni told an Italian radio show from the European Political Community summit in Budapest Thursday that she was working despite not being well.
    Replying to an inquiry about her health from a member of her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party from the Un Giorno da Pecora show, she said: "Not well to tell the truth, but since I don't have any particular trade-union rights I'm in Budapest for the European summit to do my job".
    Meloni is recovering from the flu.
    The EPC is a 47-member forum for political and strategic discussions about the future of Europe, established in 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (ANSA).