Metalworkers on strike for contract renewal, Rey David: “Considered fundamental but then they are told that it is not the time for rights”

The four-hour workers’ strike has started metal workers in support of the Contract renewal expired at the end of 2019, following negotiations with Federmeccanica you don’t want to concede increases salary. For the agreement that concerns a million and a half workers Fiom, End me Uilm from the 10th they organized a garrison in the Piazza dell’Esquilino a Rome and in other cities, from Torino a Naples, in compliance with anti-Covid 19 regulations. Abstention from work does not involve employees in transportation, health and essential services. The strike “is for the salary, the safety and employment, “said Fiom’s general secretary, Francesca Re David. “It is not acceptable for metal workers to be considered indispensable and then say: “shut up and work, this is not the time to claim your rights.” It really was time to go on strike. “

A Torino a garrison of workers is in progress before Leonardo, the former Alenia di Caselle, and similar initiatives are planned in all Piedmont provinces with offices in front of the headquarters of the Industrial Unions and the main factories. According to Fiom, since the first data collected, high adhesions have been registered in Piedmont factories: 90% in Denso di Poirino with 8 hours of abstention from work, 90% also in Fucine Rostagno di Cuorgnè with 8 hours of strike and 80% in Dana di Luserna always with 8 hours of strike. “The strike was successful with adhesion tips of 80-90% although it was one of the most difficult strikes that I know of because it was organized in the middle of a pandemic with hundreds of workers’ assemblies, many of them outdoors, in full compliance with safety regulations, ”says the secretary of Fiom del Piemonte. Giorgio Airaudo. We need Federmeccanica to make a contract with a salary increase and recognize the contribution that workers are making in this difficult moment, that they should be able to work without worrying about their jobs and in safe conditions ”.

In Naples, the first act of the event is dedicated to history. Whirlwind after the group confirmed the closure of the plant in via Argine. On stage, the workers sing a fighting song of Chilean origin. After the interventions of the delegates of the different categories, those of the secretaries of the metalworkers’ organizations and, finally, the interventions of the general secretaries of Cgil Cisl Uil of Naples.