I try to put myself in the shoes of a worker of Mirafiori. I think of a family, children to take to school, the cost to support, mortgages to pay. I think today the difference between having a base salary, but a salary, and not having anyone.
of these days I think the referendum, which economists marks the choice between different production models, to me that between marks only survive or drown.
Everything else does not count, and tracking of the noise of politicians, editorialists embroidering analysis that seem taken from text books are crap. For those working today there is just this choice. Survive or drown.
In this definitive and categorical choice is the key issue. The powerlessness of the workers, with unions that may or may accept the choices of the block (see CISL and UIL) or rejected in the same block, condemned to isolation (see Fiom). In both these cases the opposite is apparent that a trade union can no longer do its job: to represent workers and negotiate with the company the best compromise possible.
realistically hope to win, yes, because the worse the better it would leave too many people out of work when the crisis blows and welfare cuts are made harder.
For Fiat-workers-not only losing his job would be a defeat even worse than a contract that I do not like trucks because the fundamental rights of those who work with a meager salary and a contract with fewer safeguards.
But every honest Democrat should ask because we got to this point, because, let's say that in a republic founded on work, workers are no longer the beating heart, but only one of the gears of the company, subject to the dictatorship of a more or less in the stock market trends .
Some people even left speaks of modernity. It 's inevitable that to compete with the Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese have to become a bit' more like them?
China today means economic growth, but at the cost of low wages, child labor, occupational accidents, of a communist dictatorship that represses the rights of its citizens from the strike. E ' this modernity? It 's so we want our society in 10 or 20 years?
have to worry about competing on the welfare besides wealth, because without one the other is ephemeral. We must bring forward a new European social pact that gives more power to citizens and reduce the excessive power delegated financial oligarchies. It 's a challenge to freedom that has factual basis.
An example. Workers at Chrysler have made so many sacrifices, but even in a society much less sensitive to the rights of our labor-Marchionne could not put the gun on the counter charge of the relocation. The reason is simple: the workers of Chrysler is now the main shareholders, and management of that company administrator is answerable only to the dark forces of finance, but also to the faces in the flesh of his employees.
It seems to me a sacrosanct principle. Even in Germany for many years, workers participating in the profits or business decisions, and this guarantees better than anything else is the much-trumpeted "governability" of the factories-is-a very concrete rights and wages of workers. Not surprisingly, even administrators Volkswagen could not threaten to move production abroad, and indeed have had to offer compensation to the workers as a guarantee of 0 redundancies until 2014.
The challenge of a reformist force of twenty-first century must be to break the workers in government enterprises, become involved and not just passive labor. The Italian (and European) modernity should be a little 'more German and a little' less Chinese.
final consideration. The Democratic Party is the party of labor. We as a foundational vocation to be on the side of those who are weaker: the workers at Mirafiori like this whole world that the right of government relegated to the insecurity. Young temporary workers, employers struggling with a mortgage to pay, pensioners, students have no future.
E 'this world that is part of our history. And through the tears of an old pensioner, who at the gates of Mirafiori crying because this part of workers, those who have less protection, continues to divide, and the celebrations of those who "so if the referendum goes wrong, we'll celebrate elsewhere we know with no uncertainty to be.
And who gets the side of the strongest, or niche, you know not to represent not only the position of the PD, not only our people but the very reason for our staying together.
Once Luke
Councillor PD in Montecatini Terme
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