For over four years Sergio Marchionne was one of the most discrete of Italy manager: communicating with the rest of the country through the company's financial statements, interventions in the board and his sweaters. For some time he began to make noisy outputs in public. Prior to the meeting of Communion and Liberation, the locus of all politics and wire paraberlusconiana the country, then to Florence, the association of the Knights of labor, where you left off even "escape" that someone had opened the gates of the zoo (as if until then the men and women of the establishment had remained locked in a cage) on Sunday by Fazio, foolish to make promises ("Fiat will bring wages to the level of those in Germany" , which are exactly twice) and read data inconclusive, that the labor productivity in Italy is ranked at 118 out of 139 countries surveyed (of the 201 existing, including San Marino and the Vatican). Unfortunately, his interviewer has not asked him how and by whom it was calculated that figure. It seems to me (source: Eurostat) and the 25 EU countries, Italy is in 15th place to ensure productivity (but then, other countries around the world are all in the first few rows above us?), but we are in 17th place for spending on research, on the 23rd for investment in ICT (information technology), the 24th for training. On the other hand, the OECD, Italian wages are lower and working hours are among the highest of those of the 33 countries that belong to it. Whose responsibility then? Workers who do not work enough, if by chance we have a job? Or of those not doing research, are not training, are not investments, do not pay the workers?
It 'obvious that with his public appearances Marchionne tries to hide the lack of investment, "new models" and now (finished the incentives) also features the company's sales, despite, apparently, full of profits to come. The mysterious factory floor industrial Italy, so far we only know that Termini Imerese is closing that was stolen at Mirafiori production program, while the survival of Pomigliano remains in doubt, so much so that if Marchionne had managed to win the Opel, as has won the Chrysler, at no cost, at the expense would have been just the establishment of Campania. Make
, Marchionne tells us, only those establishments abroad: in Poland and Brazil, without the weight of Italy Fiat would be better off. But it is obvious that in a company where workers are in cash integration one day and go off, and where do you work in Pomigliano virtually for almost two years - except as lemons squeeze the workers in the days when the establishments are open - productivity and efficiency are low.
But Marchionne, until they can "govern" the factory as he wants, will not reveal his plans or to its shareholders, trade unions or collaborators who have signed the diktat of Pomigliano. Many (even Fini and Bonanni!) Begin to glimpse the bluff and to suspect that behind the latest moves - the spin-off, which puts the party except for the Agnelli profitable company, layoffs of reprisal, they come under accused of Fiom from now referred to as responsible for any and increasingly likely flop Factory Italy - there are only preparing to scale and sell off most of the Italian plant. All the more reason to start thinking seriously about alternatives in production environment.
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