Taranto A public meeting between workers who have spent and ended his career in another iron and steel workers and young people who fear and together they hope to do the same thing is not an event affecting the only one dimension of the factory. It covers the entire city, that the presence of Ilva takes all life and death in a blackmail the terms of which surprised the other western countries.
The steel plant Taranto has seen significant changes so that domestic workers who worked before the era Rivas and workers hired after it difficult to discuss the reality of factory: each of the two groups is very different situations described on the other.
as a stimulus to discussion might be considered important elements to consider the social fabric of the degenerative processes set in motion by Hospitality municipal Battafarano from the junta, which took over all things to good government Cannata, followed by the administrations of "penta-party" that, that lasted until the early 90's, created the national feelings che andarono dall'insoddisfazione all'indignazione.
Nel frattempo si producevano i processi di ristrutturazione interni al siderurgico, accompagnati da accordi sempre più penalizzanti per i lavoratori, che sottraevano conquiste sacrosante a tutto il mondo del lavoro.
Ricordiamo due avvenimenti che a nostro avviso segnarono fortemente quegli anni:
Primo: il processo di ridefinizione del siderurgico, con ristrutturazione finanziaria propedeutica alla svendita e con grandi tagli al numero degli operai e degli impiegati, eliminando anche qualche dirigente;
Secondo: ad accordi capestro in fabbrica, si aggiunsero accordi nazionali, come quello del July 1992, which blocked the shot of the escalator, followed by the infamous agreement of July '93 that finally eliminated the mechanism that kept, for better or for worse, the purchasing power of wages, salaries and pensions, and that gave room for distortion bargaining and restructuring.
Here we have neglected the processes that affect the working class ILVA procurement and suppliers, which in some ways were more violent Ilva. While we have no idea what was going on in local companies. Together with internal changes to the factory, the mutations occurred outside, ie in the city were amazing: from the southern stronghold of the PCI (which in the working-class district par excellence, Paul VI, reached over 50% of the votes), able to express government led by that party, Taranto has not seen a mayor from renegade fascist past plebiscite also elected Paul VI, he was succeeded by the junta that led to the collapse of the history of Italy's largest municipality, before reaching the current, unstable situation. It is as if
Taranto, hosting the reality of the factory, was able to anticipate the great Italian political changes: here the disaffection towards the party was said depositary interests of workers ahead of dramatically since then happened in the rest of the peninsula, a place where I quote the mayor has shown that the open space by the fall of trust could be filled with that attitude, pretending to play with the tones widespread outrage, cultural insights and practically the class divisions that had enabled the parliamentary left that is produced, from the famous, including "secured and unsecured."
All this will certainly have a way to exist in his factory in Taranto, which may have contained the genesis of the change in the city. It is to analyze the dynamics of the past with the eye turned to the present is to understand what may presently be the weak points of the mechanism that allows the direction of a factory as the undisputed domain, inside and outside the plant, which generations of workers together with the people present at this debate are requested to extend help to the city lines of interpretation, both past and present, so that we can construct elements of the method can give a sense of hope. That certainly can not be waiting for conditions similar to those of the past but must substantiate intervention in the social fabric to resume, in ways appropriate to the current situation, the fighting that has improved in the past life of the working class and the whole population.
