“It’s the day of Turin pride, we are still a very strong city with great skills and workers and those who come to invest here find business”. The words of Edi Lazzi, Turin secretary of Fiom, talks about the Mirafiori workers’ strike which yesterday turned into a procession through the center of Turin.
A 8 hour non-stop in front of the Town Hall which involved all the trade unions. All united in the request to relaunch the historic Stellantis factory in Mirafiori. As? By hiring young workers, bringing the design of new models back to Turin and having them made here, in the city.
Because Turin knows how to make cars. Here, Lazzi explained yesterday, another producer would also find fertile ground: “We definitely want to keep Stellantis – he added – but we also want a new producer, it doesn’t matter where, the important thing is to make world producers understand that if they come to Turin they will find fertile ground. Turin’s pride is in knowing how to make cars, in knowing how to do industry.”
The topic of hiring young people was also raised yesterday in the streets by the mayor of Turin Stefano Lo Russo: “The hiring of young people in Mirafiori is a topic strongly posed by the City – he said -. We need a generational change. I believe that Stellantis must and can hire young people, it is a signal that I believe it is necessary to have a longer time horizon than the retirement date.”
The unions themselves denounced it: if they don’t arrive fresh forces in Turinthe Mirafiori plant risks shutting down due to consumption after the retirements of the workers who currently work there.
Yesterday’s demonstration for the relaunch of Turin
“We want Turin’s role in the production of motor vehicles to be maintained and to have a future perspective” added the general secretary of Fim Cisl Torino-Canavese, Rocco Cutrì, yesterday. This was echoed by Luigi Paone, general secretary of Uilm Torino, who called for “common action between the Government, local institutions and Stellantis to also guarantee a future for the 65 thousand Turin workers in the automotive industry. In the near future it will be important to monitor the trend of the sector and, as regards Mirafiori, start thinking about the generational change that will be necessary”.
The 5 Stars also took to the streets, with the request to the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio“to take immediate action to include in the budget the fund to support the income of workers who are unemployed or at risk of unemployment. During the election campaign he said that he would implement the measure proposed by the M5S as soon as possible, the time has come to get to the facts.”
