Out and out globalisation at Fiat

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has promised to invest 20 billion euros, demanding in exchange that the state and employees accept changes to working conditions and be more submissive, writes the daily Delo: "What Marchionne is doing is globalisation in its purest and crudest form. Globalisation likes neither wage agreements nor unions nor chambers of commerce. Yes, he has allowed himself to be pushed somewhat into a corner and agreed to maintain production in Pomigliano near Naples. But in response he has created a new company there which is not a member of the chamber of commerce, has no wage agreements or accords with the unions. ... Now everyone is appalled. The government, which had been focused only on itself rather than on the real world, the chamber of commerce, which loses much of its clout ... without Fiat, as well as the unions are all slowly awakening from their long hibernation. ... The times when everyone could bring their ideological differences into play are over. Marchionne has tossed the century of successful class struggle into the dustbin of history."

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