{"id":42746,"date":"2024-03-13T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=42746"},"modified":"2024-03-13T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:27:31","slug":"the-gkn-workers-fight-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/economics-unions-work\/work-trade-unions\/the-gkn-workers-fight-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The GKN workers\u2019 fight continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"drop-cap-paragraph\">On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (formerly FIAT) factory, which produces car axles in Campi di Bisenzio, Florence, and the layoff of more than 400 workers. While in many cases the workers and unions would settle for negotiating enhanced redundancy benefits, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/coordinamentogknfirenze\">GKN Factory Collective<\/a> took over the plants and kickstarted a long <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2022\/08\/gkn-driveline-florence-factory-collective-strike\">struggle<\/a> against decommissioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, what makes the Ex GKN Florence dispute really unique is the strategy adopted by the workers. They sealed an alliance with the climate justice movement by drafting a <a href=\"https:\/\/projectpppr.org\/populisms\/working-class-environmentalism-and-climate-justice-the-challenge-of-convergence-todaynbsp\">conversion plan for sustainable, public transport<\/a> and demanding its adoption. Their engendered a cycle of broad mobilisations \u2013 repeatedly bringing tens of thousands to the streets \u2013 with the dispute still open. Despite the intention for the workers to be dismissed on 1 January 2024,&nbsp; the permanent sit-in at the factory remains today..&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GKN Factory Collective had thus turned new year\u2019s eve 2023 into a final call to action to defend their conversion plan. Such&nbsp; pressure from below probably played a role in the labour court\u2019s, 27 December decision to overturn the layoffs for the second time. The collective staged aconcert in the factory and a nocturnal march across Campi Bisenzio\u2019s industrial area. It became a mass mobilisation to relaunch the workers\u2019 plan to set up a cooperative for the production of cargo bikes and solar panels, part of a broader vision for a worker-led ecological transition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is currently seeking material solidarity. Over 600,000 euros have been collected by the popular shareholding <a href=\"http:\/\/insorgiamo.org\">campaign to launch the cooperative<\/a>, with an overall target of one million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What follows is the midnight speech on 31 December 2023, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minimaetmoralia.it\/wp\/altro\/il-discorso-di-fine-anno-delle-lavoratrici-e-dei-lavoratori-della-gkn\/\">Dario Salvetti<\/a>, an ex GKN worker and shop steward, and one of the spokespersons of Florence\u2019s GKN Factory Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dario Salvetti<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Two and a half years since the beginning of our permanent sit-in, giving a speech while keeping an eye on the clock, not to lose the midnight countdown, is one of the most difficult things that ever happened to us. Here\u2019s a spoiler: after the countdown and the ritual cheers, we\u2019ll listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meganoidi\">Meganoidi<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Zeta Reticoli\u2019 and then we\u2019ll set off to march, because this is why we\u2019re here.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Thanks to all those who contributed to this event: the volunteers at the stands, the kitchen, and the security service. On the other hand, we owe our apologies to those who chose not to join us tonight, including our colleagues who have been overtaken by depression, resignation, and the idea that it\u2019s useless to be here. We\u2019re sorry we haven\u2019t been strong enough to protect you from the factory closure plans, from those who want to starve us and throw us out of here. It&#8217;s easy to live in Florence glorifying David against Goliath, but it\u2019s difficult today to <em>be<\/em> David challenging the Goliath this system is. And when you meet that David, perhaps you don\u2019t even recognise him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Shortly we\u2019ll be surrounded by bangs, fireworks and toasts. But let\u2019s try, for the last time before midnight, to focus on the silence. We\u2019ll hear a background noise rumbling over this factory and this community. It\u2019s the noise of real estate speculation, organised crime, mafia, outsourcing, precarity and exploitation. Listen to it closely, because we live with it every day, in this cemented and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/general_news\/2023\/11\/04\/5000-people-isolated-by-flood-water-in-campi-bisenzio_856147e4-605e-4750-a5c6-ee3eb898753f.html\">flooded<\/a> territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Same fight, different struggle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018As GKN workers, we confess our embarrassment for having called you here, as if our layoffs were the only problem in the world. Unfortunately, using the word \u2018plight\u2019 when talking about layoffs is grotesque, in the face of what has been happening for decades in Palestine, in the face of what\u2019s happening today in Gaza. It\u2019s grotesque, but alas our life is made of relatives and absolutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018To us, those layoffs are an absolute plight but are laughable relative to what\u2019s happening in the Mediterranean, in Palestine, relative to the 500,000 deaths in the war between Ukraine and Russia. But we have the duty of keeping together this relative and this absolute. If the working class, in the here and now, does not manage to push back against delocalisation, low wages and precarity, it can\u2019t address what happens in the world.\u00a0If we don\u2019t win the struggle to reach the end of the month, we can\u2019t win the struggle against the end of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018To keep 5,800,000 people living in absolute poverty, 3,000,000 in relative poverty, 3,500,000 in precarity \u2013 as it is the case in Italy \u2013 to keep them subjugated\u00a0in an apparent democracy, the system must absorb them completely into indifference, consumerism, pointlessness, in an eternal present with no perspective. To this eternal, fascist \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019 in which they keep the working class, we have counterposed our \u2018we care\u2019 about this territory and these communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\">If we don\u2019t win the struggle to reach the end of the month, we can\u2019t win the struggle against the end of the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018They have accused the GKN workers of doing politics rather than trade unionism. Well, in a sense, we\u2019ve been the only ones who did politics in this country and the only ones who didn\u2019t do it. We didn\u2019t do politics in an electoralist sense, we didn\u2019t do any vote trading. If there is someone who engaged in political opportunism over the lives and jobs of hundreds of workers, that was the Meloni government. On the other hand, we are the ones who forged a politics, a different vision for this country. That\u2019s us, all of those who are here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve won six legal cases over anti-union behaviour in five years. Now they\u2019ll say this shows there\u2019s a legal way to the struggle. But we have won these cases based on the Workers\u2019 Statute of 1970. The only law that keeps us standing is the fruit of the 1968-69 struggles, nothing else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forging a victory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018In this dispute, we\u2019ve had a peculiar relationship with the unions. They\u2019ve supported us but often they\u2019ve looked with suspicion at what was happening in this factory. We say to them \u2013 to CGIL, FIOM, USB, and SI COBAS \u2013 this is not a struggle against the unions, it is a struggle that speaks to them about the need to recover a democratic, participative, antagonistic, radical, and insurgent trade unionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018So, as after this won battle they\u2019ll try again to soften us with bogus announcements and fake promises about reindustrialisation, we say it and engage ourselves on this 31 December at midnight: if they try again to wear us down in order to attack us, we\u2019ll get back to them. Keep yourselves free in March, we\u2019ll get back to the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We also announce there will be a new edition of the Working Class Literature Festival, and hopefully we\u2019ll all meet there, because in a country that has lost the ability to do politics and trade unionism, perhaps the only way forward is shaping a new narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\">They\u2019re servants of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants of this economic system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We keep hearing the slippery concept of nationalism, or \u2018sovereign-ism\u2019 (<em>sovranismo<\/em>). I believe this government does not deserve any qualification. They\u2019re not nationalists or sovereign-ists, they\u2019re not nothing. They\u2019re servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants, of the servants of this economic system. That\u2019s what they are! Otherwise, they would have nothing to fear from thousands of people gathering to defend a factory and a community, to reclaim an ecological transition and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We dedicate this new year\u2019s eve to those who are no longer with us, particularly \u2013 because we\u2019ve said it to his family, and we\u2019ll do it \u2013 to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorenzo_Orsetti\">Lorenzo Orsetti<\/a>. He reminded us that you never know when the storm will come, you can\u2019t know it, but get ready to be a drop. We\u2019ll keep being drops for the future. Let\u2019s go get this future. Let\u2019s stop living in an eternal present with no perspective, let\u2019s try and win the GKN dispute, to be an example spreading around Italy and Europe. To make this a <em>new<\/em> year, and not just another year to get over with.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence\u2019s ex-GKN workers is alive, writes Lorezno Fe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":42747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,356,620,2535,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-capitalism","category-corporations","category-environmental-justice","category-work-trade-unions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The GKN workers\u2019 fight continues - Red Pepper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence\u2019s ex-GKN workers is alive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/economics-unions-work\/work-trade-unions\/the-gkn-workers-fight-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The GKN workers\u2019 fight continues - 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