(en) Anarkismo.net - Genova: Multinazionali a delinquere. Il
caso Ericsson Jabil - Coordination by working men and women Genoa
Jabil (it) [machine translation]
Today, workers must, unfortunately, learn to do for themselves, if bypassing and
overcoming every caution of union bureaucracies. ---- The struggles and the unity of the
workers were the only way to defend our rights. ---- Genoa: Multinational criminal. The
case Ericsson Jabil ---- Ericsson is a Swedish multinational field of telecommunications.
It 'very solid company with huge turnovers and companies all over the world. In Italy it
is present in different places from Milan to Marcianise. In Genoa occupies a hill Erzelli
where she moved using public money just as he left home several employees. This story that
is intertwined with the speculation on the heights of Sestri Ponente (where instead of the
technological center are building luxurious palaces and artificial lakes) is a
paradigmatic case of the plot between political affairs and industrial desertification.
This story is not separable from the other events of the Swedish group which these days is
completing a disposal plant in Marcianise in Caserta province is ongoing for months a
labor struggle that is not told by anyone except by a few lines of some local newspapers.
Yet the workers of the factory went on strike casertana for over a month, have repeatedly
met with the government and the multinational and are providing an example of worker
resistance. Then, try briefly to tell this story.
In early January, after negotiations silent and long time denied, the Ericsson decides to
sell the factory to the multinational electronics Marcianise Jabil. This company had risen
to the headlines union in 2008 for the closure of the factory's former Nokia Cassina
Pecchi who had just taken over. That dispute was played by Jabil workers who held in check
the property for months trying to occupy and operate the business. After three years,
because of a policy at the service of the bosses, the Jabil got the result he wanted.
Meanwhile own Jabil had already detected in Marcianise about 600 former employees of the
group Marconi; of the approximately 1,200 employees in Jabil half was over, the other
officer had become the factory of the Ericsson Group. After a few years, Jabil has 520
employees of which about 180 declared redundant; within the company (working on orders of
the Ericsson Group) working in fits and starts (from 2 to 5 days per month). This company
would like to take over the employees of Ericsson (about 450 of which 100 made redundant
and layoffs until June). In this situation it is clear that the group wants to download
Ericsson workers to a group that is already in crisis and has no real intention to produce
in Italy. It seems clear that this is a true sale of a branch of a multinational
enterprise to which functions as liquidator of the workforce.
Nothing new in fact. Multinationals in Italy are the good and bad weather: detect
industries and squeeze this until they deem most beneficial decrease labor costs by
transferring business units abroad. In particular we have the Jabil that specializes in
this type of transaction.
The struggle of the workers of Marcianise is so sacrosanct that reflects a struggle but
total isolation. On the one hand multinationals continue to grind profits transferring
productions wherever there is the opportunity to earn more. The other a local and national
politics that sees interesting business plans whenever the bosses ask anything until the
next closure or relocation. Who should defend workers is the union that has accepted and
continues to accept that workers in the same branch are divided into categories (in this
case, some workers have the contract Ericsson telecommunications, others maintain the
contract by metal workers) so that every action Common is banned or useless. To give just
one example, workers Ericsson Genoa have asked to turn a case of resistance to the
employees of Marcianise but until now the union has not responded.
Today, workers must, unfortunately, learn to do for themselves, if bypassing and
overcoming every caution of union bureaucracies.
Workers of Ericsson in Genoa have already paid a heavy restructuring and have to tighten
with the workers of Marcianise not to an abstract principle of solidarity but because you
have to ask "who is next?"
Only a common struggle and generalized can convince the bosses to give in and politics to
take the part of workers. But those are the counterparts to fight and forced to surrender
not comrades. It 'definitely waned the season when rivers of public money could persuade
companies to exploit less workers; by at least twenty years, the multinationals and the
bosses have had easy game in the fire, lower wages and protections. The policy has
accompanied them with the laws in their favor until the jobs act that will make everyone
even more slaves and blackmail. The margins for negotiations of defense have been reduced
to the point that it is not practicable. The struggles and the unity of the workers were
the only way to defend our rights.
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