Eaton closes down in Massa. Workers rebel.


I put my ear to the ground and I hear a noise. It’s getting closer. A rumble, a charge, an outburst. It’s millions of newly unemployed. How many extra will there be in a year’s time? Two million? Three million? With nothing more to lose. The batons will not be able to stop them. They will mow down everything and everyone and they won’t take prisoners. Anyone on their route will be mown down. Colluding Trades Unions, servile journalists, self-referential parties. Topo Gigio’s loft and the psycho-dwarf’s Sardinian villas. Mown down. The Wave of the Students is coming first. After the Wave, comes the Tsunami of work. No one is talking about it. Every day dozens of big and small companies are closing down. Jobs lost for ever. A father of a family without a job, without a lump sum handshake, with nothing. What alternatives does he have? He goes home and looks at his children and nothing has more importance for him. The army will have to take control of the supermarkets first and then the offices of the parties straight away after that.
From today I am collecting evidence about “lost jobs”. I’m starting with Motorola in Turin and I’ll soon pop in there. They will never give up (but would it be worth it?). Neither will we.

”Dear Beppe,
Thank you for talking about Motorola. As you have said we are among the first examples of this crisis that is sweeping across the world and that will soon destroy our country too. Everything has happened so suddenly. Thursday morning we were slaving away for mother Motorola. Many of us were even working the weekend so that the production is finished on time. All useless effort given that in a simple announcement, the president of the Mobile section declared the immediate end of the product range that we were working on. Immediately after that an email told us there was a meeting on Monday morning with the Motorola boss responsible for the EMEA region. Many people fell into a state of anxiety. While many were still optimistic. The worst thing happened between Friday and Monday when Motorola together with the directors left us literally alone at the mercy of the press: “Motorola, the end of a dream, 300 researchers at risk – At Motorola three hundred at risk”, I read in the press at three o’clock in the morning of Saturday. Then when we got to Monday morning when, as I said, they gave us good service after telling us that we are among the best, that we are an excellent centre, but that we are not needed any more…. And lots of greetings and good bye. But we meanwhile knew before the press. Anyway, they made out that we are thieves saying that Motorola had already removed all the boxes from the building to avoid theft. And loads and loads of other rubbish written by lying journalists who should be sweeping Turin’s streets…
The moral of the fairy story is that there are 370 engineers plus about a hundred consultants, all out of a job … without social security … without anything. Many of us have families … Now given that we are on our own I’m wondering whether you Beppe could come and visit us… - to encourage us… I am certain that we will welcome you with open arms… - Warm greetings” Marco

Read the article on the job losses at Motorola.