Article assessment referendum Mirafiori " we just slaves without rights, without a heart would only Marchionne " (from a poster of SC)
The old working class of the Fiat-old because for more than one hundred years in Turin are produced cars, but also because old the average age of female and male Body of Mirafiori workers is about 45 years, has shown, despite the many difficulties of defeats, it had not surrendered. Have shown that they recognize the unacceptable arrogance of the old enemy boss ever, the Agnelli family in the black jersey of the CEO, they still aware of itself, of its rights and its role in production. E 'condition required by the class to sell their labor, but is not willing to give up its role as antagonist, to become a marginal class of servants. Many have pointed out, for another right, the claim to dignity, but I prefer to talk about why working-class pride there are too many (including not only enemies, but false friends) want to play only as a generous gesture of nobility that has not, however, no possibility to change things there. Hence the invitation of some characters Fiat to be "magnanimous" and to give some space to Fiom, in the hope that it will permanently close the game to enter in the 'Marchionne was ", ie back to the nineteenth century. The vote of Mirafiori must instead be construed as an offer to the rescue, as the alarm of those on their skin they realized that the fire burns every capitalist law and security and should therefore react. It 's a measure that calls for all women workers and workers to lift, to take action, to mobilize a unified move to rebuild the balance of power to hold a clash inevitable. And if anyone has had any doubts, is the same Marchionne to remember: the contents reactionary introduced Pomigliano Mirafiori and should become the rule throughout the automotive industry. Cassino and Melfi are already in the crosshairs. And behind many other capitalists rush to say "I want it too."
From Pomigliano Mirafiori Pomigliano's vote, come unexpected, because it was feared that the steamroller of Fiat and its accomplices and blackmail would have made a clean sweep of employment of workers, domesticating the choices employers, created in Turin, but also throughout the country. greater awareness among workers of having to counter the onslaught of the new Fiat. It 'been so built a large and extensive work that has resulted in an extraordinary touching nearly complete victory. In fact, if we consider that a score of so-called leaders who voted in the polling of bats (ie, workers of the night) the No clearly prevailed among the workers. Only the vote, not of generating employment, but the real corporate hierarchy has allowed the measure of victory is. It should be noted, especially when Marchionne chew bitter about a media victory Fiom, that all this occurred in a dramatic isolation of workers, with a campaign for Fiat built by newspapers and television stations, the worst sycophants in each category, ie from a line up that runs through the center right and center left without distinction and making use of the role of a slavish and shameful large group of yellow unions. In this offensive opposed to only the Fiom and the extent of their forces, the base unions. In a bench until the last CGIL that he tried to yank the Fiom to bring it within the fold of "moderation" and the logic of the new social pact that the leadership of the federal government for a long time research, without conditions and to find more stakeholders to achieve it. Class against class The deployment of fire of the opponent's class was awesome and the weapons mediumistic magazines and newspapers at all levels of media capable of firing any kind of lies and forgery. It continues to this day. The institutions, not just the government sided with the Fiat, dismissive of any notion of industrial policy, which is not to help the owners to make the leather workers, but also local governments, municipality, province, region, managers left of center in Turin and Piedmont have worked 24 hours a day to accept the violence of Fiat workers who had to convince the lower the head, that this was necessary in the name of competition, globalization god of the market and there have been the prayers of the bishop, so miserable today by proposing a set of reconciliation to reaffirm the historic role of the reactionary church. If Marchionne has had a merit is that it has played in its most pure and clear terms the struggle between classes, in this matter all the intermediate positions were cut at the end there was only the barricade, and each had to choose whether to stay with workers or the sovereign master. Not only the various policy options and trade unions have been compared, but also the stories of each of the protagonists. Predispositions, have occurred at all levels, the human vices and virtues, as always at crucial moments, they are unveiled to the end, including dramas, anxieties of workers of concrete faced with an increasingly uncertain future.
A patient work The vote was therefore the fruit of a great and patient labor and many initiatives that the militants of the Fiom, were able to carry out, without forgetting what they have done the base unions and also the support that the forces extreme left, from the left critic (who works at this factory since its inception three years ago) have given. The union activists have worked to explain up front that the storm would come Pomigliano rapidly at Mirafiori. For this was an organized strike, with parades quite a successful close to the each bell. Then in early December at other times of mobilization, with new, albeit difficult marches out, the success of a collection of signatures on a text to say no to a proposal that he copied to Pomigliano. A tactical management of the management team of Fiom very careful to capture the uncertain, while maintaining a very steady the tiller, that is, rejecting all the pressure of the CGIL and the various members of the center-left. The combination of the works and the presence of a union that direction was determined to defend fundamental rights has been a point of reference, which has been strengthened by the numerous initiatives undertaken in the city to understand all citizens is at stake, made even more believable by the clarity with which the positions have been hearing on television. Turin, but also throughout the country has begun to discuss the work of the workers. The story became national political fact, an element of social and political discrimination. After many years in front of the concrete activities of the working class of Mirafiori, a sector of intellectuals came out of its lethargy, from his indolence and has sided with workers. It was worn out from the diagram of the unit against Berlusconi and has imposed the need to fight together and Berlusconi Marchionne as an expression of a single reality, the capitalist. Overwhelming, beautiful and assemblies have been decisive for the participation, for the determination and above all because they have called for a direct activation of many other employees, union activists. The climate in the factory has become quite positive and in favor of NO as well as the city was divided, but with a strong sympathy for the workers against the blackmail and the violence of the management. Hence, some uncertainties of the trade union front filopadronale in recent days and the direct intervention of the departments to support their action. It can not fail to mention the final night where half the country was following in the direct counting of votes, almost like a political election. I want to take also the opportunity of this budget article to express the gratitude for the work of Sinistra Critica generous, tireless and beautiful that our militants and sympathizers of Mirafiori have played in this affair and that the organization has sought to Turin to meet from their outside forces. The difficulties ahead are However, we must also begin to dwell on the tasks that are ahead, on the major problems facing operators and also understand that in this clash, it has not arrived in the best way. It 'clear that the clash is at the level of the entire Fiat group, as part of the war at this stage that the ruling classes are leading against the labor movement. Fiom was based on the conviction, moreover reiterated in the positions of its central committee, that the clash was a dispute regarding the whole group and as such would be addressed. The reality has proved not only difficult but also very different, because Fiat has been able to impose piecemeal management, the division of various plants, the union was unable to bear the battle on the ground and forced a general defense factory to factory : first Termini Imerese, then Pomigliano, then Mirafiori. The big event of October 16 has not been the springboard for the general strike, even the mechanics, it would be necessary. Of course he knew difficulties due to the fact that the category of stress is weakened by massive doses of layoffs, that is not present within the factories, tens and tens of thousands of workers and that the Fiat el'indotto have been particularly affected makes it difficult to respond effectively. The fact remains that in the end the clash took place in the harshest conditions, including the fact that neither has managed to hold together all the Mirafiori plant with the division of the body from the rest of the factory. It should be remembered that this site does not work only the 5500 production of car bodies, but about 13,000 workers, now back together just in Fiat Auto, after the recent split of the parent in the two companies. Especially the fact remains that the contents of the agreement, that the charges are now in the field of Marchionne and Fiat passes for collection. Of course the business plan is very smoky and any serious analysis have highlighted the ambiguities and, second AD is still not really find his papers. The important thing was to affirm the agency owner.
The unit struggles The road to replace, as necessary, to question the agreement is uphill and is made more complicated by the fact that the workers concerned, in the next year, will have little chance and a few days to meet U.S. factory production, they will be laid off until the regular February 14 and then to layoffs extraordinary (for unforeseen events?), followed, perhaps, in the middle of next year, the re-banded in the new company . The plan Fiat as well as being very unlikely, it is also questionable on the production itself. SUVs do not the good choice in terms of social and environmental. Moreover, the reality of the Fiat group for what we have known it is over. We are facing a different scenario. It 'hard to think of a real and balanced development while leaving the decisions in the hands of the property, especially knowing that the goal the Agnelli family is finally free of the burden of the auto industry. The need for government intervention, nationalization, the need for other development plans that can provide the guarantees of real work, employment and compliance with environmental constraints and, therefore, arises this also raises the issue of conversions possible and necessary. Workers, unions and the Fiom base is invited to new tasks difficult to transfer the success and credibility won the referendum on a new field of action and intervention. But it is precisely here that still arises with greater force the issue of unity among the various companies, unit of mechanics, but also the unity with the other categories and with the outside world, ie the size of the dreadful temporary workers and other social movements. It 'hard to think of being able to resist the offensive of the bosses determined without reconstructing a unified deployment of this size. And the trade union strength, requested many times in recent months for its history and its organizational strength, the CGIL, which should be appointed to be the reference point for the organization of the general strike and a joint response to a program that holds together the different needs and goals, look elsewhere, pursuing a new compromise with Confindustria, let alone, as it has done in recent months, the Fiom, rather just leave and split the workers. The unit must be conquered on the field, with a basic action, as wide as possible, with a single-minded commitment and conflict between all the unions who want to defend a position of class and a Fiom which must be able not only to be a point reference, but also to help find the tools and organizational goals for a total movement that is already expressed in the day of 28 January, but that it can then take root, grow in the weeks and months ahead. It goes without saying that this is the condition to defeat the offensive Marchionne, the Confindustria, the Berlusconi government to hunt and defend themselves against what might happen to them.
Sinistra Critica - Organisation for anti-capitalist left
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