#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #SICILIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, #Sicilia Libertaria - #Sicily: + 50% (ca, de, en, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 According to the official figures provided by INAIL in September 2022, compared

with the same period of 2021, fatal accidents in Sicily have increased from 44 to
49, while the overall picture of accidents at work shows an increase in reports
of 50%, in terms net 25,789 cases, compared to 17,129 last year. During the same
period, commuting accidents, i.e. traveling from work to home and vice versa,
increased by 16.5%, going from 2,283 to 2,661. ---- In the industry and services
sector there is a +54.6%, in agriculture a +7.6% and a +60% in management on
behalf of the state (various public services). Entering the sectors, that of
health and social services recorded an increase in accidents of 84.2%, that of
constructions of 41% while that of transport and warehousing (logistics) even of
310%.

Reports of occupational disease, INAIL tells us, have gone from 804 cases in 2021
to 944 this year, most of them related to the agricultural sector (+ 82%).

Mind you that we are considering the official figures due to accident reports to
INAIL, therefore concerning workers under contract in some way. It appears
evident that, in an area strongly afflicted by precariousness, undeclared work
and gray work, another part of accidents is not reported; it cannot be quantified
or improvised, but certainly these are substantial figures which are not taken
into consideration. The employers' associations and INAIL itself, in commenting
on the official data, complain that the application of workplace safety
regulations is still incomplete; and thank goodness that they refer to companies
and businesses that report, therefore that are somehow up to date with their
hiring. But how much does irregular work affect total employment in Sicily? And
isn't it easier to think that where there is irregular work, accident prevention
regulations are not fully applied?

And what about invisible workers? The thousands that escape any calculation, on
whose exploitation sectors such as construction, personal services and
agriculture are based? Invisible are the migrants, largely without permission,
employed in greenhouses or in seasonal harvesting; invisible are the thousands of
male and female workers who manage to make ends meet without any contractual,
social security and, obviously, safety protection. How many cases of injured
workers, abandoned in emergency rooms, are recorded in the case history of
accidents at work? How many people go to work despite being injured or ill, in
order not to lose their wages, not enjoying any protection? How many retirees are
still forced to work and if they get injured they are not officially registered
as workers? Finally, it should be remembered that not all deaths or accidents
while traveling are recorded as such, but under the generic heading of "road
accident".

The complacency of the employer system with a situation of exploitation that is
convenient; the deregulations signed by trade unions; the cuts in labor costs
wanted by bosses and CGIL-CISL-UIL with the excuse of reviving the economy; the
dismantling of the prevention services, which has left a few dozen inspectors in
all of Sicily, without having sufficiently insisted on its strengthening, are all
elements that confront us with the picture of a wild and corrupt market, with
which they coexist "regular" sectors where, however, safety seems more and more
to be an option, a cost item, a slogan to be flaunted at conferences and
anniversaries. The official figures say it clearly. The much more serious,
unofficial ones, which unfortunately we cannot provide, represent an inexorable
accusation against the bosses and their institutional and trade union accomplices.

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