May Day, the stories of the workers left at home. “I was a skilled worker, now I feel naked.” “Exploited during Covid, then forgotten.” “Not working takes away confidence and sleep. And breaks up families”

Chapters

1. May Day, the stories of the workers left at home. “I was a skilled worker, now I feel naked.” “Exploited during Covid, then forgotten.” “Not working takes away confidence and sleep. And it tears families apart.”
2. Embraco – “At 56 I find myself chasing an internship”
3. Delgrosso – “Suspended without salary or cash. Resisting is hard”
4. Blutec – “I was a skilled worker. Today I feel naked, they stole our work”
5. Almaviva – “Exploited during Covid, then left on the street”
6. Alitalia – “Anger and frustration. The State pays the wages and salaries of new hires”
7. Ilva – “In the cash register for six years. Families are falling apart, two colleagues have killed themselves”

Also last Sunday, from the stage of the programmatic conference of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni claimed the good performance of the labor market which sees the number of people employed and contracts stable at an all-time high. All true, except that in the meantime salaries remain at a standstill, the number of employees in absolute poverty and the government seems to be increasing […]

Also last Sunday, from the stage of the programmatic conference of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni claimed the good performance of job market which sees employment and contracts stable at an all-time high. All true, except that in the meantime the salaries they remain at a standstill, the number of employees increases absolute poverty and the government the delegation on the fight against poor work approved last November after the rejection of the minimum salary proposed by the opposition. Not only that: the other side of the coin are the workers who are victims of corporate crises ended badly and quickly forgotten by politics. Carlo, Francesco, Ilaria, Mario, Massimo, Vittorio: Ilfattoquotidiano.it collected their stories. They are on a zero-hour layoff, in “termination pay” or even without any more shock absorbers. For them the First of May It’s another day of anger. They feel it robbed of a job that was also an identity, mocked, disheartened. Those who are far from retirement hoped for retraining and reintegration into work paths financed with Pnrr funds. But even that foothold turned out to be a hoax. Among the former colleagues, they say, someone couldn’t stand it: he took his own life.
There are many others in the same situation: from the ex’s 200 Gkn closed in 2021 by the Melrose fund to 4 thousand riders Uber Eats fired by the multinational that decided to abandon the Italian market. And, without a strong industrial policy, even the discussions still open at the Ministry of Business risk ending up in the worst possible way. Francesco, who worked at Fiat, knows this well Termini Imerese: “We were the precursor to what is happening now in the other factories”.