Turin, mobilisation of metalworkers to defend industry

A mobilisation to defend the industry, with the awareness that the allocation of the new Fiat 500 hybrid at Mirafiori and the hiring of 400 new workers, mainly in the coachworks, are not enough to solve a heavy crisis, which threatens Piedmontese manufacturing, as the dispute of Primotecs of Avigliana, a historical player in the automotive industry, demonstrates.

This is the starting point for the mobilisation promoted by the metalworkers' unions, Fim, Fiom and Uilm, Fismic and Ugl, together with the Middle Managers' Association, which are organising demonstrations at the gates of the main Turin industries in recent days. After the Stellantis pole and Marelli in Venaria, yesterday it was the turn of the Iveco pole, in the same hours in which a garrison was in progress at the gates of Primotecs.

The delegates of the main companies in the area met at the end of November to approve the mobilisation plan and ask the institutions to open a permanent table dedicated to the industry. The objective is to 'initiate a continuous and fruitful confrontation with the aim of protecting and relaunching the main production sector of the territory,' they write in a joint note.

'Turin has been going through an unprecedented industrial and economic crisis for years, caused mainly by the collapse of automotive production for several reasons, but which represents the sector with the largest number of employees,' is the idea of the metalworkers.

The unions' analysis ranges from deindustrialisation risks to concerns about certain dossiers such as the sale of Iveco to the Indians of Tata Motors. "Iveco is an excellence of our city and an industrially strategic sector. In these months, a sale operation is being finalised for purely financial purposes, which is not acceptable, of the majority stake owned by the Agnelli/Elkann family through Exor, which, in doing so, will hand over control to the Indian multinational Tata Motors,' they point out.