Tomorrow third round of the 8-hour regional strikes, metalworkers, with the 8-hour strike for the renewal of the National Contract for Metalworkers with the 8-hour strike and demonstrations in Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia.
The leader of the Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli will be in Sardinia in Cagliari where the demonstration of the Sardinian blue overalls will start at 9.30 from Piazza del Carmine and will travel through the city streets to then conclude in Piazza Defenu with the rally of the FIM leader.
“The mobilization of Sardinian metalworkers will give Federmeccanica a strong and clear message: we will not allow the dispute for the renewal of the contract to go on vacation. We need to make a breakthrough in the negotiations bogged down for months in the old wait-and-see rituals of Federmeccanica. The real "renewal" that industrialists are asking for is achieved by focusing on the solidarity and participation of workers and with a system of industrial and social relations that leaves no one stranded. This is even more true in this land so marked by the crisis and by years of failed promises of a benevolent policy which so far has not given any real solutions. Industry in Sardinia has represented and still represents an important added value for the Sardinian economy and employment. Tomorrow's strike will therefore also be an opportunity to ask local and national institutions to pay greater attention to the problems of industry in Sardinia, starting with the former Alcoa, Keller, EurAllumina, Portovesme srl, Saipem and Chimica Verde sites.
We need to support factories in difficulty and restart closed ones by finally implementing those infrastructural interventions that make them competitive.
This evening Bentivogli will visit the former Alcoa workers' unit established in May 2014 outside the gates of the aluminum factory, a dispute which alone represents a real "social bomb" in one of the poorest areas of the Country, Sulcis and for which workers and their families have been waiting for too long for a solution that restores job prospects and the future.
In Sardinia the employed in industry have halved in the last 20 years without the employed in other sectors having grown. We ask the Government and local institutions to open a "Sardinia dispute" to build employment responses and development plans and cut the chain that has been broken down by industrial desertification, rampant unemployment and a push towards migration.
