[STELLANTIS] From France, greetings in the fight against association. Workers from the headquarters in Paris: the labor force is on strike

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Stellantis:

from France greetings of the international struggle against association

– by Roberto Luzzi

In recent days, the FIOM delegation of Stellantis workers went to the headquarters of the group, in Poissy (France), to be received by the management of the group together with the CGT, in a “listening meeting”. Not a conversation, but a listening meeting with hat in hand as is the custom at Caritas and San Vincenzo. What to say?

In 2022 Stellantis, born in 2020 from the merger between FCA (FIAT Chrysler) and PSA (Peugeot-Citroen), sold more than 6 million cars and made a profit of 16.8 billion euros, equivalent to more than 61,000 euros for each of the more. more than 272,000 employees! Each month each employee generated 5,000 euros in profit! Twice the gross salary of an Italian worker… Marx called it “exploitation”, the head of Stellantis, Tavares, calls it “profit”.

The human cost of this “profit” was shouted a few weeks ago by the workers of Stellantis Pomigliano who went on strike for two days demanding dignity against the unsustainable rhythms that destroy their body, against the injustice of the company’s slavery, for dignified toilets and canteens. . Added to this is the cut of more than 26,000 direct workers in two years: for capital “savings” that have been translated into profits; for workers, the decrease in employment and the increase in rhythms and the increase in flexibility to the destruction of the quality of their personal and social life.

The company, to its credit, has “distributed” 12% of these benefits among the employees. For those in Italy, the average payment is 1,879 euros; for the French 4,300 (with a 5.3% increase in the cost of living), for the Americans 14,760 dollars each (13,874 euros). Unequal or fair distribution, which shows the profit obtained by various productions, but also the weakness of Italian workers and trade unions.

In recent days, the FIOM delegation of Stellantis workers went to the headquarters of the group, in Poissy (France), to be received by the management of the group together with the CGT, in a “listening meeting”. Not a conversation, but a listening meeting with hat in hand as is the custom at Caritas and San Vincenzo. What to say? That the beats cannot be developed, the bosses are arrogant, the toilets are dirty and ask … “in-ve-sti-menti” and refer to the Italian Constitution, as if this had ever prevented the expulsion of 23,000 by the Italian Agnellis in 1980. (see flyer and poster). As if Stellantis was not ready to invest (it has a plan of 30 billion…) to increase production, sales and profits by reducing the workforce; as if the workers of Pomigliano, Melfi, and Piedmont had no problems living at the same cost as the workers of France and America, but much lower wages. The series of investments, which CGIL, CISL and UIL have been preaching for 40 years and more, leads to competition between the workers of different countries and industries, each asking for the new model to be made “at home”, logically. that leads to competition that makes more agreements on wages, flexibility, work rhythms “attractive” to the abundance of capital for profit.

It is no coincidence that the declarations made by the FIOM executives (who went to Poissy on June 2, the feast of the Italian republic …) all focus on Italy and go so far as to ask for the help of the Italian government. : “It is time for the Italian government to listen to the steel workers and favor the opening of discussions on the future of Stellantis workers and the automotive industry in Italy”, declare Marinelli and Lodi: “To deal with the transition it is important. that the Government does its part to extraordinary resources with a clear social status” (Jamhuri, June 2).

After all the aid given by various governments to FIAT for several decades (including preventing the entry of competitors in the Redundancy Fund galore) still public resources to convince Stellantis to absorb a large number of workers in Italy?

It is not with this wasteful and deep-rooted logic of capital that the workers can defend working conditions and employment, but with a struggle at the level of the whole group, internationally, to demand large increases in wages to recover the great losses of the end. decades and the current inflation, the reduction of rhythms and hours of work everywhere, the refusal to sacrifice health and social life for the needs of capital, the refusal to compete between industries and between countries. The capital is concentrated and internationalized, the workers who were divided between Fiat, Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Vauxall, Chrysler are now united under one capitalist command: only with the international unity of their forces can they defend their situation in each village.

We report below the greetings of the manager of SUD Solidaires Stellantis to the Italian employees of the group in front of the General Management of Poissy as an example of an international, high-level and non-organizational approach.:

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