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Grassroots syndicalist general strike on 27 January

2012 has opened without too many worries for those in Italy who hold 50% of the country's wealth, that is to say the 10% of the well-off who are part of the 1% of rich people throughout the world that prevents 99% of the world's population from accessing its wealth. Globalization has thus been a success, in the sense of global impoverishment. And Italian workers are now beginning to see the seriousness of the situation.

With the support of a huge majority in Parliament and to the shame of certain trade unions who no longer have Berlusconi on their side, the Monti techno-government has closely followed the script written by the European Union and re-established the harshness of the class reality: the dominant, exploiting classes will not be paying anything, the dominated, exploited classes will have to pay for everything: they will pay the public debt, they will pay for social services, they will pay for assistance and healthcare in order to save themselves and the country.

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FIAT Dux

Statement by the FdCA Labour Commission

The new FIAT agreement came into effect on 1 January 2012 in all FIAT plants. It cancels the national collective bargaining agreement and all other existing agreements. It was accompanied by a specific contract for the car sector and the cancellation of the 2008 national collective agreement for the metalworkers section, which now goes down in history as being the last voted for by the workers themselves.

These are three steps that the bosses have taken in the space of 10 days (from 13 to 23 December 2011), which radically change the system of labour relations - and indeed social relations - in Italy. In effect, it is the end of the leading role of the workers and fighting trade unions.

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FIAT - the final solution

FdCA Labour Commission Statement

A fine baptism for the new Monti government, and as had been widely forecast by any right-thinking person, FIAT has announced it is applying its new single contract - first introduced at the Pomigliano, Mirafiori and Grugliasco plants - in every part of its automobile sector (FIAT S.p.A.), to be shortly followed by its industrial sector (FIAT INDUSTRIAL).

This means that from 1st January 2012 FIAT's 80,000 employees will no longer be covered by the national bargaining agreement and everything agreed through collective bargaining with the company will no longer be valid. There will now only be the one contract FIAT itself has written with the support of its trade union partners.

This is an enormous, radical change, an earthquake even, in the whole system of labour relations, and gives the company almost complete control over its workers. Workers are now in effect without any form of defence, be it individually or collectively.

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Is neo-liberalism finished? Have they all gone now?

FdCA National Secretariat statement

Decades of rampant neo-liberalism, and now Western economies are being faced with the bill.
Decades of wage cuts, privatization, public service cuts, the shifting of wealth from production to finance, are now handing over the bill to various States.

For decades we have had to listen to the fairy tale that the market would make everyone rich, that everyone would be able to afford everything, that the Stock Exchanges - a sort of goose that lays golden eggs - was just the thing to assure us a happy old age after a lifetime of precarious work.

And throughout these decades, capitalist accumulation has become more and more rapid, more and more voracious, eating away at profits everywhere, undermining safeguards, interfering with our common goods; wealth has become increasingly concentrated, the cuts have been widened, increasingly fewer people have increasingly more, and ever more people have ever less. Less income, fewer rights, less work...

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