Dino's Greek
Yesterday we gave great importance to the agreement signed and justified by the German trade union, IG Metal, with one of the largest industrial groups in the world, Siemens AG, which operates primarily in the industrial , rail transport, lighting, energy, information technology and medical electronics. A group which has operations in 190 countries of the world, over 400 thousand employees and a turnover of almost € 80 billion. The agreement - as we explained in the paper yesterday - includes the inability to use redundancy of staff, in situations of crisis, the union gives its clearance. Here is the first point of capital importance: the sovereignty of employment at Siemens, the field becomes shared, no longer subject to unilateral acts of the company, such as those in 2008 led her to dismiss all of a sudden 17 thousand employees, more than 5 thousand in Germany.
Second point: the agreement is so good - but could not be otherwise - in Germany alone, but extends also to "members" and therefore workers who will benefit will affect the substantial number of 160 thousand. E ', the entire archipelago of the group to be involved. The subsidiaries are all bound to same employment protection legislation. But what happens if a fall production, a market crisis should again generate surplus workers, given that after the first three years of experimentation, the agreement will no longer be revocable, and will apply indefinitely, becoming a sort of cornerstone institutions of industrial relations in that company?
This is the third point of strategic importance. Because the agreement is very clear: we will use alternatives to the resolution of employment relationship, such as mobility within the group and how the reduction in schedules. Yes, just that intervention on work that our own bosses and governments have always opposed and still be considered a disaster, preferring that the world of work is divided among an army of involuntary unemployment (with few or no clients) to another party, blackmail, working for 60 hours per week.
The agreement includes a fourth formal commitment of Siemens, a direct consequence of the above. What not to outsource production abroad: Investment and settlements in foreign land allocated by Siemens will thus complement rather than substitute operating in Germany.
The Bavarian company is not the only German company to have gone down this road, even if the Daimler Company cars and transportation and military, has withdrawn plans to close its plant in Sindelfingen, pledging to keep in force until 2020, the 37 thousand workers who are employed.
This deserves due attention from us. It should arouse as much in union and political environments of our country. Why demolishes stereotypes that we have here great <+Cors> <+TondoB> audience. From the mother of all the nonsense, according to which the differentials in production costs, and especially in the labor, anti-union justify all sorts of abuse within their national borders and the decommissioning, to be moved as soon as possible on sites where the risk firm is zero and the profit of course.
Alps, is very clear, there are businessmen philanthropists. Simply it is understood that the financial crisis has shown just how important the real economy, the domestic industry and, in it, the manufacturing system. Not only that, but you can also keep it in the country which pays the worker work as anyone in the world (3 to 5 thousand euro per month), where real wages rose in the second half on an annual basis by 2.3%, where it took off in lander struggles for the renewal of contracts and where the field - despite the cuts of recent years - the welfare and investment on research and on the whole educational system remain at substantial levels.
Now, it is not uncritically glorify the cogestionale German model, which has its shadows, and it would be hard to assimilate the experience of the most advanced culture autonomist, unfortunately largely waned, the Italian trade unionism.
What concerns us here is to show the abysmal distance between a culture that goes with a solid idea of \u200b\u200bsocial cohesion and rickety our national debate, fueled by journeyman policy and boastful that populate the mediocre ragged jungle capitalism, dominated by greedy speculators, with no strategic ambitions and a one-eyed look at the future.
For this, you can bet, the agreement Siemens will be totally removed from us here. Since the national press - the whole - which bears faint traces. Why do we have to continue like this, with the blackmail of Marchionne and his followers, with the relocations that are not a hindrance in the government was running, that an entrepreneur has already destroyed as Alitalia and is doing with Fincantieri and Tirrenia.
The statement - propaganda as long as you want - the chairman of Siemens, Peter Löscher, who said: "For us, every single worker is very important" would be considered blasphemous aporia here in Italy.
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