CAN that Fiat did not really have any alternative. O manages to bring the production cost of the establishment of Pomigliano to that of factories in Poland, Serbia or Turkey, or not be able to sell either in Italy or elsewhere cars produced in Campania. The world car industry is plagued by a terrifying excess capacity, now estimated at 40 percent. As a result, manufacturers are faced with furious battles on the front of the vehicle price to the customer. AFARNE expenses, even before their budgets, are the providers (who produce more than two thirds of the value of a car), the local communities who see suddenly disappear a plant on which they lived, and the workers who provide the final assembly. Manufacturers do not get to squeeze every last euro from all these subjects are out of business. It should also be acknowledged that facing the prospect of being unemployed in a city and a region where unemployment, especially youth, has already reached dramatic levels, the majority of workers Pomigliano - as many as 15,000 if you count the led - is probably oriented to accept the proposals Fiat relating to organization of production and work. Despair, or his approach, is usually a bad counselor, but if everything the company or the government is offering a choice of working less or not work at all, it is almost inevitable that give her a straight line. Once we recognize that perhaps the company has no alternative, and there have even Pomigliano workers, should also find ways and the strength to say first, that the working conditions are harsh Fiat offers them. And, secondly, that they are daughters of globalization now unveiled, to which many other Italian companies will not fail to refer to impose their employees well. In order to use the facilities for 24 hours a day, six days a week, including Saturdays, in the establishment of Pomigliano renovated to produce the Panda in place of the current Alfa Romeo, all production and related workers (management and employees, in addition to workers), must work on three rotating shifts of eight hours. The last half hour will be devoted to school lunch (which means I am not mistaken, do not touch food for at least eight hours). Everyone will have a working week of six days and one 4. The company may require 80 hours of overtime per person (they do two weeks of work per year) without the prior labor agreement, with notice of only two or three days. Breaks during working hours will be reduced by a quarter, from 40 minutes to 30. Any losses produzionea following discontinuation of supplies (if fairly frequent nell'autoindustria, whose members come from 800 firms on average perhaps hundreds of miles away) can be retrieved either collectively in order mezz'oraa round - just one school lunch - or individual days off, notwithstanding the national metalworkers' contract. It would be interesting to see how many weeks to withstand a similar way of working with those that are shaking the index frown on workers and trade unions urging them to behave responsibly, that is to accept the proposals without fuss Fiat. That's not all. Ben on 36 of the 19-page document delivered to the unions Fiat in late May are dedicated to "the work metric." These are the methods to determine in advance the movements that a worker must take to perform a certain task, and time in which to run, measured, note, to the hundredth of a second. In some ways this is old stuff: the cronotecnici and analysis of the times and methods were present at the Lingotto since the 20's. What is new is the use of computers to calculate, verify, monitor movements and time, but especially the adoption of organizational policies referred to carpet World Class Manufacturing (WCM, which stands for "quality production or global). Criteria are coming from Japan, and are aimed at two main purposes: it will produce individual vehicles on the same line also very different to drive, accessories and the like, instead of so many cars all the same, and remove waste. In this case it is to ensure that no resources can be consumed and paid without creating value. The most valuable resource is labor. A company must therefore be to an organization of labor in which, first, not even a second of time paid to a worker could spend without producing anything useful, and second, the useful work content of every second should be as high as possible. Ideally, the bottom of the WCM is the robot that never tires, never slows down the pace, not digress even for a moment. With the metric of the work is training people to operate the robot as much as possible. It is here that the veils fall of globalization. It consisted of a policy from the beginning of work on a global scale. From 80 years of the twentieth century onwards, the American and European companies have pursued two goals. The first was going to produce in countries where labor costs were lower, docile labor, unions do not exist, the rights of labor to come. Masking and adorning everything with the thick veils of the neo-liberal. Under which always urges the second aim: to push down wages and working conditions in our countries to align with those of emerging countries. Codename: competitiveness. The economic crisis erupted in 2007 has dropped the veil of globalization. Politicians, industrialists, analysts no longer have qualms in saying that the problem is not to raise wages and working conditions in developing countries: are our which must, of course a sense of responsibility, down to their level. It is now in globalization without veils must be seen if the Fiat. If in Poland, or in any other developing country, a worker produces tot cars a year, must necessarily produce as many Pomigliano, or Mirafiori, Melfi or. It is exactly the same reasoning that are now quite explicit Renault and Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors. If workers in other countries accept harsh working conditions because it is always better than being unemployed, they say in chorus the manufacturers do not see why this should not happen even in their own country. There is no alternative. For the moment, unfortunately, is true. However, the lack of alternatives has not fallen from the sky. It was built by the policy, laws, by corporations, financial system, partly scientific, partly because of stupidity or greed. Revert to the policy and laws to try to redesign a world where alternatives exist for people not least for businesses.
The Republic June 14, 2010
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