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Sunday, January 9, 2011

FIAT labor costs?

It says Marchionne is to produce where it costs less. So if the Italian trade unions do not agree to its terms, he "relocation" to Serbia or Poland, or perhaps in China.

But then someone points out that the same Marchionne admitted not long ago that the work is a component that does not exceed 10% of the total cost of the finished product, the automobile.

So, even if Marchionne was able to cut labor costs by 10% (which is already a huge amount) reduce the cost of FIAT cars a meager 1%. For example, a car to fall to € 20,000 € 19,800.

Even a child understands that the accounts do not add up: no rush to buy a Fiat because costs € 200 less than before!

So what's the real problem? And what really Marchionne calls to employees of the Italian FIAT and their unions?

The real problem is that miserable 10% of the cost of the car, work-related concerns "human beings" and not "inanimate objects". Unlike the latter (plant, machinery, computers, robots, tools and so on, which constitute 90% of the cost of the finished product) that, just as "inanimate objects" have no capacity for autonomous and can therefore be used as, when, where and why at the discretion of the "master" and according to his needs "business" ... the humans, behold! have a brain, and autonomy of thought, but also needs "existential" and then you are in centuries of struggle, won the "rights"-type material (such as regulations on working hours, breaks, pay, etc..) and intangible (such as the right to bargain and strike!)

Well, that little 10% of the total product cost is tied to a "productive factor" that has the potential, at any time, to "say no" to requests from the "master" (the "union", of course) might affect the strategies of "business" and thus rendering it unproductive even the formidable technological device which is linked to 90% of the cost of the finished product!

Here, the problem is that man (in our "civilized" societies) is not always and only the appendage of a machine, can be used at the sole discretion of the "master."

which "master", in today's globalized world, has an interest in moving its production facilities not già dove il lavoro "costa meno" in termini asettici di retribuzione, ma dove il lavoro è svolto da "esseri umani" gestibili né più né meno che come macchine!

 

Il problema quindi non è direttamente economico, ma squisitamente "politico": Marchionne privilegia Serbia, Polonia, o Cina, non tanto perché laggiù il lavoro costi meno (sono i ridicoli 200€ a vettura!) ma perché laggiù il prestatore d'opera è totalmente asservito, esattamente come un robot, alle "superiori esigenze" del "business".

 

In poche words, Marchionne is interested in bringing the production of FIAT in countries where there is "less culture" than in Italy. Or is willing to maintain production at Fiat Mirafiori Pomigliano and only if one accepts that there is a "retreat in the levels of civilization and progress achieved in centuries of struggle.

Now, you think that such an alternative should be decided in a referendum a few thousand people, randomly FIAT employees? Or should not be a matter for debate and be the highest political level - and more - a civilized country?

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