Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente
La futura pensione degli italiani rischia di essere troppo bassa ed è necessario considerare il prima possibile una previdenza integrativa. I lavoratori stanno iniziando a rendersene conto, ma gli sforzi fatti non sono ancora sufficienti. Per questa ragione, abbiamo deciso di regalare a tutti il numero 1548 di Investi, il settimanale di finanza di Altroconsumo, con lo speciale sui fondi pensione: uno strumento utile per aiutarti a scegliere bene oggi per avere un domani più sereno.
28 Febbraio 2024 di Alberto Cascione
In Italia aumenta la consapevolezza della problematica previdenziale e si inizia anche a pensare a risparmiare per quando si smetterà di lavorare, ma ancora la percentuale di chi lo fa non è soddisfacente e, soprattutto, gli investimenti che vengono effettuati non sono spesso i più adeguati. Questo, in estrema sintesi, è il quadro che emerge dall’indagine “Prepararsi alla pensione” di Acmakers.
Tra i rispondenti, infatti, il 72% ha risposto che la pensione che percepirà non sarà sufficiente per sbarcare il lunario, mentre solo un risicato 3% è convinto che sarà più che sufficiente. Le aspettative sull’ammontare del futuro assegno pensionistico non sono più rosee: il 26% dei lavoratori dipendenti pensa che non avrà alcuna pensione, percentuale che sale al 33% tra i lavoratori autonomi. Sempre tra i lavoratori, c’è un altro 19% tra i dipendenti e un altro 25% tra gli autonomi che pensa che il suo assegno pensionistico sarà meno della metà dell’ultimo stipendio.
La notizia positiva è quindi che un sempre maggior numero di persone ha preso coscienza di questo problema e inizia anche a fare qualcosa per porvi rimedio. Il 66% dei lavoratori ha infatti dichiarato che sta facendo qualcosa per avere una situazione migliore una volta in pensione. È una buona percentuale, ma non ottima: un lavoratore su tre non sta facendo nulla e, anche ammettendo che una parte di quel 33% non ha effettivamente bisogno di pensarci, si tratta di una quota importante a rischio povertà una volta in pensione. Avere una quota non indifferente in ristrettezze economiche, se non addirittura in povertà, non è un problema solo a livello di singolo individuo, ma anche a livello macroeconomico. Tanto maggiore è il numero di persone in difficoltà, tanto minori sono i consumi, voce fondamentale nel Pil. Tenendo conto della dinamica demografica italiana, con la quota di popolazione che sarà sempre più sbilanciata verso le persone che percepiranno una pensione rispetto a quelle che verseranno i contributi, non ci si può illudere che le condizioni non solo delle pensioni, ma anche dei requisiti per accedervi, non peggioreranno. Il problema è quindi reale e non si può far finta di nulla – ne va del proprio futuro. C’è poi un altro problema: spesso il prodotto scelto per integrare la pensione non è quello più adeguato e questo può portare a realizzare rendimenti con gli investimenti scelti insufficienti a integrare la futura pensione.
È necessario dunque risparmiare per la pensione. Il prodotto più adeguato è il fondo pensione. Quello nel fondo pensione deve essere il primo investimento che si fa. Una volta provveduto a coprire tutte le spese (alimentari, bollette, mutui…) e una volta provveduto ad assicurare il proprio patrimonio (ad esempio con assicurazioni sulla casa o altre che più si adattano alla tua situazione personale), bisogna avere della liquidità sul conto per gestire i pagamenti quotidiani o mensili. Poi bisogna avere una quota di liquidità di emergenza, per le spese impreviste. Solo una volta fatto ciò, con quanto rimasto si può cominciare a pensare agli investimenti e la prima cosa da sottoscrivere è il fondo pensione. Perché questa priorità rispetto ad altri investimenti? Perché è un po’ come se ci si assicurasse nei confronti della vecchiaia: ci si copre dal rischio di avere un reddito troppo basso. Importante è anche il momento in cui iniziare: il prima possibile. Più si è giovani, e quindi prima si inizia, meglio è. Il tempo è un importantissimo alleato negli investimenti: permette, infatti, di ridurre l’esborso richiesto per raggiungere l’obiettivo in termini di capitale accumulato.
Se il fondo pensione è il prodotto a cui rivolgere le proprie attenzioni, bisogna poi scegliere tra quelli disponibili sul mercato. Come orientarsi tra l’elevato numero di prodotti offerti? E come gestire nel tempo il proprio investimento? Risposta che abbiamo deciso di dare nel numero 1548 di Investi, il settimanale finanziario di Altroconsumo, che da 30 anni informa e consiglia i consumatori su come investire i propri risparmi. Si tratta di un numero che contiene il nostro speciale sui fondi pensione, uno strumento utile per trovare quello più adatto alle proprie necessità. È un’iniziativa che rendiamo disponibile a tutti gratuitamente, per aiutare tutte le persone nei confronti di un problema molto serio.
Fonte: Altroconsumo https://www.altroconsumo.it/
The future pension of Italians risks being too low and it is necessary to consider a supplementary pension as soon as possible. Workers are starting to realize this, but the efforts made are still not enough. For this reason, we have decided to give everyone issue 1548 of Investi, the Altroconsumo finance weekly, with the special on pension funds: a useful tool to help you make good choices today to have a more peaceful tomorrow.
28 February 2024 by Alberto Cascione
In Italy, awareness of the social security issue is increasing and people are also starting to think about saving for when they stop working, but the percentage of those who do so is still not satisfactory and, above all, the investments that are made are often not the most adequate. This, in a nutshell, is the picture that emerges from Acmakers’ “Preparing for retirement” survey.
In fact, among the respondents, 72% replied that the pension they will receive will not be enough to make ends meet, while only a slim 3% are convinced that it will be more than enough. Expectations regarding the amount of the future pension check are no longer rosy: 26% of employees think they will not have any pension, a percentage that rises to 33% among self-employed workers. Still among workers, there is another 19% among employees and another 25% among self-employed people who think that their pension check will be less than half of their last salary.
The positive news is therefore that an ever-increasing number of people have become aware of this problem and are also starting to do something to remedy it. In fact, 66% of workers declared that they are doing something to have a better situation once they retire. It’s a good percentage, but not excellent: one worker in three is doing nothing and, even admitting that part of that 33% doesn’t actually need to think about it, this is a significant share at risk of poverty once they retire. Having a significant share of economic hardship, if not downright poverty, is not only a problem at the level of the individual, but also at the macroeconomic level. The greater the number of people in difficulty, the lower the consumption, a fundamental item in the GDP. Taking into account the Italian demographic dynamics, with the share of the population that will be increasingly skewed towards people who will receive a pension compared to those who will pay contributions, we cannot delude ourselves that the conditions not only of pensions, but also of the requirements for access them, they will not get worse. The problem is therefore real and you cannot ignore it – your future is at stake. Then there is another problem: often the product chosen to supplement the pension is not the most suitable one and this can lead to yields from the chosen investments that are insufficient to supplement the future pension.
It is therefore necessary to save for retirement. The most suitable product is the pension fund. The one in the pension fund must be the first investment you make. Once you have covered all your expenses (food, bills, mortgages…) and once you have insured your assets (for example with home insurance or others that best suit your personal situation), you need to have liquidity in your account to manage daily or monthly payments. Then you need to have an emergency liquidity quota, for unexpected expenses. Only once this is done can you start thinking about investments with what is left and the first thing to subscribe to is the pension fund. Why this priority over other investments? Because it’s a bit like insuring yourself against old age: you cover yourself from the risk of having too low an income. The time to start is also important: as soon as possible. The younger you are, and therefore the earlier you start, the better. Time is a very important ally in investments: in fact, it allows you to reduce the outlay required to reach the objective in terms of accumulated capital.
If the pension fund is the product to turn your attention to, you must then choose from those available on the market. How to find your way among the large number of products on offer? And how to manage your investment over time? An answer that we decided to give in issue 1548 of Investi, the financial weekly magazine from Altroconsumo, which for 30 years has been informing and advising consumers on how to invest their savings. This is an issue that contains our special on pension funds, a useful tool for finding the one best suited to your needs. It’s an initiative that we make available to everyone for free, to help all people with a very serious problem.
Source: Altroconsumo
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente
Imminenti i 185 licenziamenti alla Gkn di Firenze, effettivi il 1 gennaio 2024. Il Collettivo di Fabbrica organizza un Capodanno di protesta
Pubblicato il: 26-12-2023 17:48
Autore: Gabriele Silvestri
Il 1 Gennaio 2024 rappresenterà il momento cruciale per i lavoratori dell’ex GKN di Campi Bisenzio (Firenze), poiché i 185 licenziamenti annunciati da Qf diventeranno ufficiali a mezzanotte, tra domenica e lunedì. Mentre la Fiom ha presentato un ricorso per comportamento antisindacale, nella speranza che il giudice del lavoro possa intervenire prima della scadenza, il Collettivo di Fabbrica ha organizzato una manifestazione di protesta per la notte di Capodanno, con interventi, concerti e un dj set per mobilitare il territorio.
Il countdown verso la mezzanotte del 1 gennaio non rappresenta solo il passaggio al nuovo anno per i lavoratori dell’ex Gkn, ma segna anche l’inizio di una svolta cruciale.
La decisione della Qf di procedere con i 185 licenziamenti sarà effettiva dal primo gennaio, a meno che la FIOM non ottenga una vittoria in tribunale per il comportamento antisindacale, come già accaduto nel 2021.
In quella occasione, centinaia di lavoratori videro sfumare il proprio posto di lavoro da un giorno all’altro, con l’avvenuto licenziamento comunicato semplicemente attraverso una e-mail.
Dario Salvetti, del Collettivo di Fabbrica, ha espresso incertezza sulla tempistica della sentenza, ma nel frattempo la mobilitazione continua.
Il Collettivo ha infatti programmato un Capodanno di protesta, definito una “gioiosa barricata” che inizierà alle 18 con interventi significativi, seguiti da un concerto con The Magnetics e I Meganoidi tra gli altri, e un dj set a seguire.
L’obiettivo è coinvolgere la comunità locale in un momento di consapevolezza e solidarietà per affrontare insieme la sfida dei licenziamenti imminenti.
“Il 31 dicembre sarà una serata difficile da prevedere, la più strana di tutta questa nostra vicenda” ha spiegato Dario Salvetti. “Una serata di lotta, veglia, comizio e concerto. Non abbiamo voglia di divertirci perché dal primo gennaio scattano i licenziamenti, ma sarà comunque una festa. E siamo sereni, perché non possiamo fare altro”.
Il Collettivo ha da tempo denunciato il rischio di speculazione sullo stabilimento di Campi Bisenzio, e la situazione si è complicata ulteriormente con le variazioni societarie di inizio ottobre.
Nel frattempo, il silenzio della politica di fronte alla richiesta di un intervento pubblico ha alimentato le preoccupazioni dei lavoratori. “Questo governo ha gettato la maschera, è complice nella chiusura di Gkn, non lo diciamo noi, ma la sua azione” ha dichiarato Salvetti.
La sentenza del giudice del lavoro, se arriverà entro il 1 gennaio, sarà decisiva per il futuro dei licenziamenti alla Gkn. Tuttavia, il Collettivo di Fabbrica considera molteplici fattori nella decisione sul proseguimento del presidio di viale Fratelli Cervi, inclusa la loro stanchezza e la situazione del territorio.
Nonostante la resistenza eroica dei lavoratori, è evidente la necessità di coinvolgere l’intera società per affrontare le sfide future: “Siamo sereni, ma è giusto richiamare l’intera società alle proprie responsabilità. Sentiamo la vicinanza del territorio, che però si sta ammalando della stessa stanchezza” ha spiegato Salvetti.
Fonte: Virgilio Notizie
BY FRANCESCA GABBRIELLINI GIACOMO GABBUTI
For two years, the GKN auto parts plant in Florence, Italy, has been occupied by laid-off workers. It’s the longest factory occupation in Italian history — and its retooling for green production shows how workers can reorganize the economy while saving jobs.
n Saturday, March 25, the streets of Florence were filled with thousands of people from all over Italy, marching in solidarity with workers from the former GKN factory in nearby Campi Bisenzio. The struggle at the plant had begun on July 9, 2021, when the auto parts producer’s 422 workers were abruptly dismissed. Contrary to the plans of the owner — British investment fund Melrose Industries — the workers occupied the plant, and they have been keeping it (and the millions of euros’ worth of machinery it contains) in order ever since. It is now the longest factory occupation in Italian history.
In that time, the workers at the ex-GKN plant have launched a massive solidarity movement, fighting to prevent the plant from being yet another milestone in Italy’s long deindustrialization. As we explained in an article last summer, this dispute is remarkable for many reasons. It comes amidst a political situation where the Left in its various forms has been shut permanently out of Parliament and increasingly marginalized in society, and indeed where post-fascist movements have extended their grip. It also confronts the generally dismal power relations in the world of labor — Italy is the only Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country where wages have fallen in real terms over the last three decades.
But the period since last summer has also seen many developments: not only because of the broader solidarity for the workers, but also because this dispute is combined with the fight for a just transition. Tellingly of this broader cause, the call for the March 25 march was signed by hundreds of associations — from unions to movement spaces, via students, parties, social centers, civic lists, and personalities, including international figures such as Miguel Benasayag, Adrian Lyttelton, and João Pedro Stedile. It closed with the slogan: “Let’s break the siege, let’s try to make the future.”
The ”siege” against these workers takes the form of the nonpayment of their salaries for some six months — a “de facto dismissal,” which has put them in the absurd condition of having neither social security nor salary, even as they deal with soaring inflation. The “future” here invoked means public intervention so that the liquidation procedure by the new owners is stopped, and the workers are allowed to pursue their own “reindustrialization from below.”
Indeed, for decades, Italian institutions have given up on any attempt at industrial policy — a situation that hasn’t changed with Europe’s post-pandemic recovery plans. The ex-GKN Factory Collective and those in solidarity with it are instead taking their own initiative to move toward a green transition. The aim: to reverse the spiral of relocations, divestments, and starvation wages that Italy has been heading down for at least three decades. To avoid a once great factory ending up as an empty shed, ready to become an eco-monster or the latest site of real estate speculation, the workers are striving to recover it on a cooperative basis, advancing their own plan to produce photovoltaic panels, batteries, and cargo bikes.
The workers’ collective has created broad alliances, with movements ranging from feminists to green causes. This is particularly visible in the climate strikes it has organized together with youth-led movements over the last two years. The ex-GKN struggle thus combines what is also called an “old” form of mobilization — the defense of workers’ jobs and a distinct class-based view of social relations — with a “new” one, i.e., the fight against climate change. For want of public intervention, it has launched a crowdfunding drive also supported by the Italian wing of Fridays for Future, with a view to “popular shareholding” in the future cooperative. But to understand why this support is important, it is worth explaining how we got to this point.
When we last wrote about this dispute in summer 2022, dark clouds were already gathering that would soon bring Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia to high office. By a curious twist of history, this happened almost upon the centenary of the March on Rome, the fascist takeover in October 1922.
In the early 1920s, Benito Mussolini’s regime first appeared in the guise of liberal free-marketeer austerity before veering toward more interventionist policies after the Great Crash. This may itself have raised some doubts over what attitude Fratelli d’Italia would take toward industrial policies. Yet, the list of new ministries produced in October was enough to dispel any uncertainty about the new right’s cultural subalternity to neoliberalism. The ministry responsible for dealing with industrial policies and crises, known since 2008 as the “Ministry of Economic Development,” has tellingly been renamed the “Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy” (in English, despite the government’s recently launched battle against the public use of foreign languages). Meanwhile, the former Environment Ministry, in 2021 becoming the Ministry of Ecological Transition, has now been more autarkically renamed “Ministry of Environment and Energy Security.”Right from the start, the workers’ collective suspected that the new owner’s operation was only about buying time — moreover, with the aid of public money.
In such conditions, the first industrial “plan” launched by the ex-GKN workers and supportive researchers in December 2021 (an English presentation will soon be available here) as well as the call for a new public engagement in industrial policies, has been permanently shelved. The steadily widening solidarity network has thus instead gone back to work on a bottom-up conversion plan.
In fact, the lack of even potential institutional aid contrasts with the rather peculiar “presence” of the new ownership: the president of Unindustria Cassino, Francesco Borgomeo. Initially an advisor to Melrose in seeking to find buyers, he reinvented himself as savior: on December 23, 2021, saving Christmas and the factory, he announced he would himself be the buyer and was awaiting investors and business plans. Maximum secrecy had to be maintained on both fronts, but they were enough to bring Fiducia (Confidence) and a “Future” to the Florence Factory. From these four “F”s came the company’s new, rather absurd name QF Spa — literally, “Four F Co.”
Right from the start, the workers’ collective suspected that the new owner’s operation was only about buying time — moreover, with the aid of public money. This would mean getting staff layoff funds from the state, stripping the plant of millions of euros’ worth of machinery, waiting for the workers’ mobilization to wind down, and gradually waiting for them to leave, after a year of uncertainty at 60 percent salary.
Taking a metaphor from Noam Chomsky, the workers’ collective has since described this as the principle of boiling a frog without it noticing the water heating up. As one Christian Democratic premier, Giulio Andreotti, once put it, “To think badly of people is a sin, but is often bang on the money.” Since January 2022, when it signed the framework agreement with the then Ministry of Economic Development, QF has failed to meet any deadlines. The new ownership’s inconsistency reached its height in July 2022 when, instead of industrial plans, admirable slides were presented to ministers, outlining the possibility of collaboration with a consortium of innovative companies. This was supposed to mean installing “a research and development center on mechatronics and industrial electronics” at the factory; but once again, the announcement was not followed by any concrete measures, never mind flesh-and-blood investors.
These months, in which Borgomeo shunned engagement with the workers but reassured them that things would soon get going again, were used to reorganize the support groups, starting with the creation of a legal team. Activities ranged from the Food Brigade, which keeps the workers’ canteen open on the three shifts of the permanent occupation, to Cultural Convergence: self-education activities open to the public. These latter are anchored in the right to 150 hours’ study (generally every three years) provided for by the Workers’ Statute (the state labor code) and the metalworkers’ collective bargaining agreement.
Locals in solidarity with the workers as well as national-level writers and intellectuals took part, together with Edizioni Alegre — publisher of Jacobin Italia — organizing the first Italian Festival of Working-Class Literature between March 31 and April 2 in the occupied factory itself. Funded by a two-week crowdfunding campaign, the festival brought together Italian authors such as co-organizer Alberto Prunetti and working-class voices such as Cash Carraway, D. Hunter, Cynthia Cruz, and Anthony Cartwright. During the second day — attended by some fourteen hundred people, after the six hundred of the first day — the workers could read the solidarity message from director Ken Loach, who highlighted the importance of working-class writing to the class struggle.The workers’ assembly expresses its intention to recover values of reciprocity, solidarity, and mutualism, deeply rooted in the labor movement since the nineteenth century.
The “reindustrialization from below” is also following a new course. The Solidarity Research Group has in recent months transformed into a broader Reindustrialization Group, putting together the factory’s “CV,” mapping the factory layout and inventorying all the machinery and logistical infrastructure. It is also scouting projects to make use of its machinery and skills and to concretize the objectives outlined in the “plan”: the reconversion toward sustainable mobility and renewable energy.
At the same time, the collective began to think about mutualist approaches, which would allow at least a minority of them to reactivate micro-production (for instance, a brewery). But they also began thinking about the agri-food chain, and what and how we consume. In October, the workers’ assembly also launched the Soms Insorgiamo Social Promotion Association to regularize these activities. Officially established in January 2023, right from its name Soms (Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso; Workers’ Mutual Aid Society), it expresses its intention to recover values of reciprocity, solidarity, and mutualism, deeply rooted in the labor movement since the nineteenth century.
This brings us to November 2022, a new watershed for the dispute. Indeed, since this point, the workers have received neither their salaries nor pay slips certifying their wages. Access to records by the legal team reveals QF’s repeated attempts to obtain Cassa integrazione ordinaria — that is, redundancy payments from the state — have been rejected due to the lack of a business plan. Apart from a threat to clear out the occupied plant, contacts with the ownership have become almost nil: the labor court has granted dozens of injunctions for the payment of overdue wages.
All that was being waited for was an announcement of the company’s liquidation: this came on February 21, three days after yet another ministerial discussion, attended by a commissioner who could only admit that he had not had time to look into the matter in depth, before he was replaced on March 7. Borgomeo, meanwhile, accuses the ex-GKN workers’ “Insorgiamo movement” of driving away investors by occupying the factory. They had, however, also been occupying the factory back in December 2021, when Borgomeo himself cited the experienced and motivated workforce as an asset of the factory he had decided to buy.
The work groups at the plant soon undermined his claims: from December 2022, a German-Italian startup engaged in new technologies and products related to clean energy production began close talks with the Factory Collective — exploring the possibility of producing cutting-edge photovoltaic panels and batteries at the plant. By this they meant products whose production would not involve the use of rare earths — with obvious reduction of the social impact and supply difficulties of the current geopolitical period — and which would even have the certification of ordinary waste, also averting the problem of disposal.
Taking up René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s famous characters from Asterix the Gaul, this summer cartoonist Zerocalcare depicted the factory as the small Gallic village, which, with the magic potion of organization and solidarity, resists the aggression of Julius Caesar’s Roman legions. The Factory Collective not only withstands the siege, but seems to succeed in achieving the objectives so bombastically declared in National Agendas and Plans.From December 2022, a German-Italian startup engaged in new technologies and products related to clean energy production began close talks with the Factory Collective.
Parallel to the technical issues surrounding industrial plans and labor organization, the work groups focused on the issue of ownership structure, including by studying the possibility of a worker buyout. In Italy such operations are regulated by the Marcora Law of 1985, which provides for public funds to safeguard workers affected by attempts at industrial relocation or liquidation and who intend to take over ownership in a cooperative structure. Usually, with such processes, the startup capital is built up through workers investing their severance pay. But in the GKN case, the idea is that local supporters should play a leading role in reactivating production, as in the struggle itself. Thus the idea of the popular shareholder campaign was born, and dialogues began with Banca Etica (an Italian ethical finance body, which has been in solidarity with the GKN struggle since the opening of the Resistance Fund) and other such institutions.
Alongside the identification of the plant’s future core business, involving the initial employment of 110-120 workers, other projects have been developing. In terms of sustainable mobility, the possibility of developing cargo-bikes was studied, both for proximity logistics and for handling items within large warehouses. Again, working groups interacted with companies already engaged in the sector to develop a concrete development plan, with the hope of employing up to thirty to forty people across production and sales.
The first cargo-bike prototype entirely “made in GKN,” painted in the same purple as Florence’s Serie A soccer team, was presented with great enthusiasm in February, complete with reviews from trade magazines such as Bike Italia. That was also when the third “leg” of the workers’ proposal was presented to citizens: the transformation of the plant into a Renewable Energy Solidarity Community, in synergy with the production of solar panels, which will also serve to achieve the plant’s energy autonomy. Once the core business is up and running and it is calculated how much energy is needed to keep it running, the surplus production can be put back into the general grid, benefiting the whole territory.
wenty months after the first layoff, and after more than a year of boiling in the pot of new ownership, the frog is exhausted, under pressure psychologically as well as in terms of its income. But the months of “waiting” have served to find energy, allies, and ideas. The answer to the siege, in March 2023 as in July 2021, is to go on the counterattack. If the ownership retreats, and institutions continue to be unable to provide solutions, it will be the workers of the former GKN who will again have to be the “experts.”
One demand is the payment of what is owed to the workers — just on the eve of the demonstration, on March 23, the court held its first hearing on the nonpayments. Once again, despite accusations of “illegality” often leveled against the workers, the courts agreed with their claims. But as one of the workers said at the demo, “if I don’t pay my bills, the next day they’ll cut off my electricity, and yet when I haven’t been paid for six months, even if the court agrees with me, I don’t get a single euro.”
At the same time, the Florence protest called for reindustrialization from below. On March 16, amidst preparations for the march, the “Ex GKN for Future” crowdfunding campaign was launched, building toward the popular shareholding that will support the factory’s future. It is a campaign that anyone can back on the portal Produzioni dal Basso (English, French, German, and Spanish translations are also available) and that has raised almost €60,000 in two weeks. The support comes from across Italy, but also beyond: contacts with the startup also allowed a worker delegation to meet German environmentalists in Leipzig and Berlin during the last climate strike.
The first phase, so-called reward crowdfunding, aims to raise many small shares, which will make up the first core of capital, to meet the startup costs of the new cooperative and to cover the first dues for its final legal establishment. Next, equity crowdfunding will be launched, aimed at finding larger investors. Finally, having started panel production, it will be time for so-called product crowdfunding — getting in orders, especially from other recovered enterprises and production cooperatives, who will find in the ex-GKN a powerful ally on the road to the just transition.
Already on March 25, thousands of us flocked to Florence to defend the workers. But with the crowdfunding and popular shareholder campaign, it’s time for those in solidarity with the dispute — even people who can’t physically attend protests — to rally around the cause. As the Factory Collective puts it, “It’s time that the frog jumps. Either the worst defeat or a leap into the future.” So let us attempt this future. All we have to lose, after all, is starvation wages and climate catastrophe.
Source: Jacobin
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro partecipante ordinario Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione appartenente alla Rete Internazionale A22 in contrasto del Cambiamento Climatico in atto
On 21 September 2023, the first-ever PATH (Partnership for Active Travel and Health) symposium brought together members of the coalition, a line up of expert speakers on active travel and an audience of walking and cycling advocates to exchange on how we can help confront the climate crisis. The online symposium was held from 14.00 – 16.30 UK time (BST). The symposium was an occasion to:
• Hear from high-level policy and decision makers who are leading the way on active travel.
• Learn about effective walking and cycling actions by PATH partners and supporters that are helping to reach the climate goals.
• Brief PATH partners and supporters on activities and upcoming reports.
• Prepare PATH’s engagement for COP 28. For more, visit https://pathforwalkingcycling.com
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Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università di L’Aquila, membro partecipante ordinario Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo ed attivista del movimento ambientalista italiano Ultima Generazione A22 Network
Roma, 13 settembre 2023 – I dati relativi ai contagi e alle ospedalizzazioni da Coronavirus sono in aumento anche in virtù delle nuove varianti in circolazione, i cui nomi sono Eris e Pirola, in una situazione generale che non appare allarmante ma che necessità di essere attenzionata. A farlo saranno gli esperti del tavolo interministeriale che si riunirà con cadenza periodica per monitorare l’evolversi della situazione in base ai riscontri scientifici relativi all’andamento del virus.
Al momento, infatti, le norme vigenti nel nostro Paese non prevedono nemmeno l’obbligo di isolamento per chi dovesse risultare positivo al Covid. Il ministero della Salute con la circolare dell’11 agosto ha eliminato l’obbligo di quarantena. Anche chi è positivo al Covid può andare a scuola o al lavoro.
Le precauzioni di indossare la mascherina o evitare luoghi affollati restano ma solo in forma di raccomandazioni. A partire dal 5 maggio 2023, data in cui l’Oms ha decretato la fine della pandemia, in Italia è entrato in vigore il nuovo sistema di monitoraggio che prevede il passaggio da un sistema di valutazione del rischio ad un sistema flessibile ed adattabile rispetto alla circolazione virale, garantendo comunque l’identificazione tempestiva dei cambiamenti nelle caratteristiche della diffusione dei casi di malattia e nell’impatto sui servizi assistenziali, fornendo un’adeguata e sollecita informazione alle autorità competenti.
L’orientamento del governo è quello di gestire la patologia al pari di altre malattie infettive. La politica della “regole zero”, secondo quanto ipotizzato dai ministeri competenti, cederà il passo alla reintroduzione delle misure anti-contagio solo in caso di un aumento netto dei contagi.
Termina il 30 settembre 2023 il diritto allo smart working per i lavoratori fragili del pubblico e del privato. Fino a pochi giorni fa un’ulteriore proroga era esclusa, ma il cambiamento del quadro epidemiologico ha rimesso inevitabilmente tutto in gioco. Nei prossimi giorni il governo dovrebbe sciogliere la riserva.
Intanto il ministero della Salute, con una nuova circolare diramata venerdì 8 settembre, ha reintrodotto l’obbligo dei tamponi per chi accede al Pronto Soccorso presentando i sintomi del Covid-19. Il test sarà necessario anche per chi deve trasferirsi da una struttura sanitaria ad un’altra e per l’ingresso nelle residenze per anziani (RSA).
“Esaminato l’attuale andamento clinico-epidemiologico – si legge nella circolare firmata dal Dg della prevenzione del Ministero, Francesco Vaia – e considerate le indicazioni contenute nei documenti nazionali e internazionali, anche al fine di rendere omogenea la pratica dell’effettuazione dei test a livello nazionale, si forniscono raccomandazioni in merito ai casi nei quali è opportuno procedere all’approfondimento diagnostico per SARS-CoV-2”.
Nella circolare si sottolinea, inoltre, che resta la possibilità “da parte del direttore sanitario della struttura o del clinico che ne ravvisi la necessità, di definire ulteriori indicazioni per l’effettuazione dei test e misure di prevenzione e protezione aggiuntive rispetto a quelle riportate”.
Sempre all’accesso in Pronto Soccorso e per all’accesso per ricovero nelle strutture sanitarie, per i pazienti che all’anamnesi dichiarino di aver avuto contatti stretti con un caso confermato Covid-19, con esposizione negli ultimi 5 giorni, è altresì indicata l’effettuazione di test diagnostici per SARS-CoV-2.
Fonte: Quotidiano Nazionale
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Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università di L’Aquila, membro partecipante ordinario Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo ed attivista del movimento ambientalista italiano Ultima Generazione A22 Network
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila
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