The recent implementation decrees of the Jobs Act enacted by the Italian government are
added to other anti-worker legislation approved in the European Union (EU). Individual
contracts to increasing protections, the redefinition of employment, flexibility released
from bargaining, the monetization of layoffs and expulsion from the production cycle are
meant to bring immediate irrelevance right coalition of workers and the role of ' trade
union organization in the factories. ---- But, at the same time, it performs well even in
the Italian part of the restructuring of the labor law that, behind the facade of the
austerity policies inculcated by the economy of debt, you put in the process of
restructuring industry, already completed, in place in the EU. ---- These processes are
following four guidelines.
1. The employees undergo these restructuring processes
There is no EU regulations on labor issues. Meanwhile national rules do not work anymore,
as enterprises under the blackmail of moving to another country or have been dismantled to
not interfere in the ongoing processes.
These new systems of companies that have formed are in fact dominant.
2. To start from Maastricht, European industry has been structured as an industry
supranational.
3. We are in the presence of business systems structured around a leader with business
networks and supply chains.
4. Systems businesses distributed in many countries, but in a non-homogeneous and highly
concentrated, or rather centralized and structured so oligopolistic.
Supply chains that have gradually built have developed a highly integrated system, both in
efficiency criteria for both margins of return (profit); the latter are less and less
detectable levels of individual enterprise and, increasingly, at the level of each system,
so in the event that it is composed of a chain of levels on the network with less
stringent constraints.
Through all this, they are consolidated in Europe powers which are capable of investment
choices in production capacity, to structure the market, placing the finance where needed,
and finally to adjust the work directly.
If you enter the system of governance of these enterprise systems, we highlight the
physical control on production flows, then on quality, time, flexibility and speed of
execution, of rapid change in the mix of products to be supplied, but also on efficiency
overall production - namely productivity, lead time, time to market - and finally in the
margins of return (profit) of that single enterprise system.
Such systems are, therefore, organized around a leader who controls the final part of the
process, in a supply chain organized in decreasing levels of value-added and business
networks of production and services, both highly specialized, working for different
leading enterprises.
Who dominates all this, who controls a large part of these networks product is Germany
that has bent a great part of national industrial systems to their needs, using even
though nostalgic approach to national-capitalist.
If you examine the localization of manufacturing in the EU, shows that the core is placed
in Germany, which together with Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania,
Slovenia and Poland form the German manufacturing area enlarged. The integration extends
to the east, where there is also an acceleration in the process of diversification and
specialization.
The development to the south includes the second European factory: Italy. Which
participates in a consistent way to the enlarged German manufacturing also with autonomous
chains of subcontracting created to the east. This phenomenon of Germanization develops in
the north of Italy and decreases towards the center and the south.
We are witnessing a reality split in two: one part participates in the integrated system,
while the other party participates as suburbs.
It should be emphasized that relocation Italian covered subcontracting chains comprising
the entire product, unlike the German case, where the final component remains company
leaders, determining the end an increase of production capacity.
Simplifying: a high amount of intermediate goods exports contribute German. Which would
lead to the redefinition of the current reference in the European area, no longer be
considered only in terms of quantity and (in) imbalance towards Germany.
Remains in northern Italy a composition made of SMEs, which, in itself of little relevance
in the reference European, maintains its own network of exports compared to Germany.
In this context, resume with force in Europe mergers, mergers and changes of ownership of
companies manufacturing and service.
In fact, the concept of manufacturing limited only to manufacture material is expanded to
include services for the company as it is configured in this system. These are services
such as research and development, the functions of design, marketing, services, production
processes, support services to the product, etc. It should, therefore, considered an
interdependence between services and manufacturing; a part of the services is inside and
is absorbed by the product, while another part is added subsequently.
In Italy, about 25% of manufacturing has been contracted, resulting in a breakdown of the
class. This is one of the points that have caused and are causing the extreme difficulty
to resume a path of negotiation, in addition to the existence of a lack of legislative
constraints on procurement contracts.
The class, as we said, undergoes these processes, while fielding throughout the European
economic area a strong resistance. But, until now, this has not translated into a strategy
/ plan of recovery of the balance of power aimed at imposing capital constraints or social
alternative to the dismantling of the rights and protections, nor in prefigure an idea of
society other than that the owners are building and shaping.
Germany branch elements underlying anti-workers synthetically constructed around the
dramatic reduction of wages, unemployment, radical change in the market of labor and
industrial relations and social, which have gradually extended, worsening, in the
countries of Southern Europe and Eastern Europe for reasons ranging, for example, from
non-existence to the poor coverage of the welfare state; the position of lower
profitability starting capital imposing draconian austerity measures to bear the
proletarians to the processes of social butchery current characterizing the role of the
state in the capitalist phase in progress.
In Germany we see a reduction in wages, the creation of a market of the workforce consists
of bands, where in addition to temporary work (about 30% in less than a salary of a
permanent worker), you have created a army of 7 million low-wage workers with consequent
poverty pockets. Germany also benefits from another piece of the market of the workforce
resulting from the weights Europe, joined the EU for the next step; countries where the
wage is 2-3 euro per hour, with no rights and protections decent, where they have been and
are being developed supply chains for manufacturing and services.
The neo-German freighter was fueled not only by the construction of an integrated
broad-based low wages in other countries, but also on a market segmentation of the
national workforce. It is clear the adjustment of the entire area of the European market
than the labor force on the ground and resulting contract.
The Italian case shows how you manage to dismantle a system of rights and social
protections - despite a strong union presence - replacing it with legislation and a
contract system of master matrix. Italian workers and employees have neither the contract
nor the national status of workers' rights.
The movement of goods, then the increasingly important role of logistics and the massive
introduction of advanced technology in production processes and services, are additional
processes that deepen the relationship of the European integration of manufacturing with
the rest of the manufacturing system worldwide, to push so Federmeccanica (October 2014)
that Confindustria (May 2014) to talk about the fourth industrial revolution.
The resistance and the reaction of the working class is today, as yesterday, increasingly
linked to its ability to reorganize on an international basis and worldwide, developing
forms of union representation necessary to overcome the categorical divisions to build a
re-composition of figures and workers' struggles able to react to the capitalist
restructuring in place.
Libertarian Alternative / FdCA
March 3, 2015
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