More than a hundred delegates and representatives of the USB’s industrial sector met in Naples, from steel, chemicals and mechanical engineering to automotive, aerospace, applied industrial research and information technology. A complexity and richness that reflects the growth of the USB, also in the industrial sector. The workers of Jabil, a recent entrant to the USB, took the floor to support the fight to defend their jobs.
The future beyond the factory. An assembly created with the aim of overcoming the purely corporate dimension of delegates and delegates; to break the encirclement and master conditioning that leads to corporatism.
The workers’ sectors of the ports and logistics, which are also part of the value chain, made their contribution to the meeting. An axis of work, that of the workers’ category, which aims to rebuild the protagonism and contractual strength of the working class, today divided by the organisation of work, bent by the sell-out and sharing policies of CGIL, CISL and UIL.
Both the speeches and the final document approved by the assembly highlighted how the industrial crises, despite their general dimension, have been kept far apart, leaving a free hand to the bosses, who are now preparing to pass on to the workers and the country the costs of industrial restructuring and those of an absent and bankrupt industrial policy.
The constant fall in wages, the loss of purchasing power, the crisis in the industrial sector, technological innovation, war and the environmental problem are closely linked.
Rearming Europe, or the European Defence Plan, updates Mario Draghi’s industrial conversion plan for the worse, that’s another 800 billion taken from the wealth produced by the workers and allocated to the war industry and the military complex.
The assembly launched the mobilisation against the war, for the renewal of contracts, wages and the welfare state, a mobilisation that will take place inside and outside the factories, with banners, leaflets, assemblies and strike initiatives. In a country plundered by banks and multinationals that have taken and continue to take resources from welfare and infrastructure and force already low wages to remain below inflation, Raise Wages Lower Arms addresses the entire working class.
A path of struggle that converges and crosses the second and important date of 5 April in Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome, where a big initiative in the square will see the entire USB confederation demanding increases in wages, pensions, the minimum wage, reduction of working hours, no more contracts, no more precariousness, we need public investment in housing and infrastructure. No to rearmament and no to war.
USB – National category of private sector workers
