For workers of the old Gkn, hour X will start at midnight between Sunday and Monday. In fact, on January 1, the 185 layoffs announced by Qf will come into force. Unless the labor judge’s decision first agrees with Fiom, which is appealing for anti-union behavior as it did in 2021. “We have no news at the moment,” says Dario Salvetti of the Factory Collective. Let’s assume it could come in the next few days, but that’s actually an assumption because the judge isn’t required to adhere to a strict timeline, and penalties for anti-union behavior often came after dismissals; It is part of the strange things in our law”.
New Year’s Eve mobilization
For New Year’s Eve, the factory collective gathered the area for a “merry barricade”. We start with talks at 18:00, followed by a DJ set after the concert at 21:00 (The Magnetics and I Meganoids, among others). “December 31 will be an evening that is difficult to predict, the strangest of our entire story. It will be an evening of struggles, vigils, rallies and concerts. We don’t know how many people will be there, many variables are coming together, including the weather. Of course not “It’s up to us. We don’t want to have fun because the layoffs will start on January 1, but it will still be a party. And we’re calm because we can’t do anything else.”
“The government is complicit in the closure”
The factory collective has been condemning risk speculation regarding the Campi factory for months; Doubts were strengthened following the institutional changes around the Qf at the beginning of October, accompanied by the government’s silence on the demand for public intervention: “We have always said: “It is a dubious formula in which politics is incapable or complicit, where everyone can form their own opinion. However, this government has thrown off the mask, it is an accomplice in the closure of Gkn, we are not saying this, it has done so with its action. “Without demanding any accounting for two years with a ‘dead father’ in the Qf or tying it to any form of re-industrialisation, redundancy payments effectively help the current owners get through the night, holding us over while we wait for redundancies to reopen”.
“Owners have created scorched earth around the facility”
“Also – adds Salvetti – he decided to invent rules, that is, in the event of voluntary liquidation there is no need to convene the crisis desk, which contradicts our history, given that this is something that has happened regularly in the past. Perhaps because if he had called for at least about dismissals should have made his point. So there are relational connections between the current manager and the owners, which are not illegal but certainly inappropriate. More generally, the narrative of the subversive-occupied factory is that this is something the government really likes. In effect, the corporate board game is Borgomeo from Melrose. It’s either the lack of clarity around the transition, the ownership that creates a scorched earth around the plant, and it’s difficult for any private sector to approach individually. Whoever did this was through workers’ action, either through public inquiry or showing the way to re-industrialisation. And what comes out is always fate asked the question: What does the factory owner plan to do with the factory? Maybe there are some rumors floating around in the entrepreneurial world…”. The last meeting in Rome was at a technical table at the end of October, where the workers’ cooperative explained its re-industrialization project to the Italian Ministry of Made in Italy. But public intervention is needed to put this into action. From here then there is nothing else on the political table and there is no clarity.
Scenarios from January 1
The outcome of the punishment, if it occurs by this date, is decisive, but it is not the only variable for the continuation of the garrison of Viale Fratelli Cervi: “We will decide based on this and many other things such as our fatigue. Moreover, in a geography injured by floods and deportations, there are only the corpses of the workers. Our heroic and in some respects Our heroic resistance is beautiful, but it is right to call the whole society to their responsibilities. The closeness of the region, but they are getting sick with the same tiredness, everything has been done to make the resignation sink into their bones, the feeling that there is no way out from here… Despite five demonstrations, 100 thousand people participated, 18 thousand signatures Public intervention, ownership of the people “The money raised for it gives the feeling of a plastic wall that never comes down.”
Source: Today IT
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