#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: Safe work national network: out of slavery, equal life expectancy health and well-being for all * (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Founded on 26.5.2022 on the impulse of the historical nucleus of railway

engineers, the NETWORK starts from four fundamental points: a) to help guarantee
everyone the same hope of health, life and well-being regardless of the
profession carried out (in fact unfair disparities remain and worsen related to
occupational risks and income) b) with respect to occupational disease and the
so-called "accident", arriving the day before and not the day after c) counting
above all on the ability and strength of the workers by cooperating with the
prevention technicians but without proxies and with the practice of "consensual
validation" d) questioning the way but also the object of production. The
starting point is tragic: in a context of continuous growth of slave labor of
which immigrant or native workers are victims in many production sectors
(agriculture, logistics, construction, riders, manufacturing, etc.) production
activities have always been marred by worker massacres in all or the world from
Tyssenkrupp of Turin (6 December mobilization for the anniversary) to Tunisia,
Turkey (Asmara), Qatar (6500 dead according to reliable sources for the World
Cup); the institutions have invented the slogan "ethical logistics"; slogan, in
the meantime belated, but which reveals the false conscience of the bosses: is
there a working sector in which ethics can be disregarded? The question is
rhetorical; worldwide (source: WHO/ILO) there were two million deaths at work in
2016, with 90 million years of life lost! collective massacres are associated
with the daily dripping of deaths (only in Italy 1400/year, the "official" ones)
and acute non-fatal but serious events; we speak of "acute events" also to
distinguish them from occupational diseases because we want to avoid the term
"accident" as it was proposed to avoid the definition of "white deaths" which are
actually "black" like the plague; "accident" means "lack of luck" but here it is
about something else: behind every single event there is no lack of luck but
there is always a gap in the DVR (risk assessment document) or an open violation
of the measures safety and prevention; from this we deduce that the workers must
get hold of the DVR (today almost clandestine), criticize it and, if necessary,
be able to propose/impose improvement actions; on this ground the NETWORK is
launching practices and synergies throughout the territory for try to arrive the
day before the events capable of compromising psychophysical health; we can
support the self-defense strategy with the knowledge of the prevention operators
who have been collaborating for some time with the historical nucleus that gave
birth to the NETWORK, without neglecting the role of supervision that the
institutional structures must carry out; many workers are skeptical and
disappointed with the work of public supervision (AUSL and Inspectorate) but
these bodies can and must make a greater contribution than that given up to now
and must be called (if necessary) to be less "dormant" and to carry out
effectively their role, all the more the more the balance of power between the
classes is unbalanced.

The NETWORK's contribution will increasingly materialize in the ability to
support workers in information/training and in the elaboration of improvement
actions to be imposed on work organizations that today come to deny the most
elementary prevention rules but even physiological needs with the imposition of
exhausting shifts, violation of circadian rhythms, work overload and distress;
without mentioning the widespread moral harassment (mobbing) of which workers are
victims on a daily basis;

a recent WHO observation shows that there is a "pandemic" of deaths (heart attack
and stroke) from overwork in the world: 750,000 deaths in a year with a 29%
growth in 2016 compared to 2000; it is a more serious "phenomenon" than all the
"official" mortality at work, also because these are completely unknown deaths
even at the insurance level; and here we come to another "bubo" that the NETWORK
wants to burst: extinguish the Inail and pass the skills of the evaluation of the
professional etiology to the supervisory bodies; In fact, Inail (with the support
of the confederal trade unions and "political decision makers") has always acted
as guarantor of the master interpretation key in risk assessment: we are at the
point that Inail often even denies cancerous pathologies (also) from asbestos,
sometimes even mesotheliomas by blatantly denying the evidence.

The main road remains prevention (prevention is better than cure!) but we cannot
avoid dealing with the damage that workers have already suffered: this is also
why we have activated the "health/work desk", for now in Bologna but you can work
remotely anywhere; the "Bologna counter" confirms the forecasts: the majority of
the workers it contacts, unfortunately, has already suffered damage; this is the
sign of the times and it is still necessary to work on this although the work for
compensation is, but only apparently, "secondary"; in reality it is not a
"rearguard" job, it pertains to the field of "social justice" and remains
fundamental because if the bosses manage not to pay the damages, they will more
easily continue to abuse workers' health (and also to devastate and plunder the
environment). IT IS NOT A CASE THAT THE MASTERS ARE OBSESSIVELY ADVANCED THE
REQUEST for a "PENAL SHIELD", a shield unfortunately well "tested" during the
pandemic affair (however with some cracks that we are trying to widen); in truth
a PENAL SHIELD THE MASTERS IF THEY ARE ALWAYS, MORE OR LESS, GUARANTEED (see
asbestos trials, Viareggio massacre and many others), ONLY THAT TODAY THEY WANT
NOT IMPUNITY OR ABSOLUTION BY PRESCRIPTION BUT THE PREVENTIVE PENAL SHIELD which
in effects on the COVID affair (failure to prevent biological risk, Guariniello's
observations) managed to secure themselves.

Against these degeneration of slavery and slaughter, we are trying to build a
barricade to which, as a NETWORK, we will make our modest contribution.

Modest because the most relevant one comes from the workers' struggles, which are
not uncommon today if we think of GKN, the workers of Trezzo (Beretta contract),
CMC CARGO railwaymen and...many others.

Prevention will not come from the master's science (industry 4.0, sensors,
robotization, exoskeletons) which is aimed not at the common good but at
increasing profits; prevention will only come from the strength of the workers
and from workers' science and knowledge.

ZERO DEATHS AT WORK, LIFE HOPE, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING FOR EVERYONE: FOR WORKERS
AND THOSE SEEKING TO SURVIVE ALONG A DANGEROUS MIGRATION ROUTE.

Vito Totire, spokesman for the NATIONAL SAFE WORK NETWORK

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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