WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria: covid operators: thanks in advance and goodbye - Heroes are good as long as they are needed. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The speed with which social facts are forgotten is always astounding, how in this

world, so obtusely fluid and frenetic, everything is re-semanticized, and every
certainty of stability is lost, and nothing has meaning anymore. But this
formless frenzy is even more hateful when it directly affects the destiny and
fate of human beings, of workers, who see themselves overwhelmed by this wave of
senselessness and often don't even have the weapons to react. Word rewriting is
an old trick of power, and its use is certainly never spared. Remember the word
"heroes"? Do you remember when, in the collective and general hysteria of the
great pandemic, all we did was talk about heroes? These heroes, however, are
certainly not the heroes of the great epic of chivalry, nor are they war heroes,
these heroes, decidedly more everyday, are workers. Workers who literally made
sure that the ship didn't sink in the stormy sea, crammed into vaccination hubs
even for ten, twelve, eighteen hours a day, sometimes without even a lunch break.
Workers who have been exploited in every way, without any protection, without any
regard. Because there weren't just the "angels in white coats" to carry the
burden of the disaster, we were there too. The technicians, the administrative
staff, without whom the vaccination hubs could not function, without whom it was
not even possible to record the data (impressive, in retrospect) of the
vaccination campaign, without whom the "angels in white coats" would not even
have been able to work . With the end of the pandemic, the Health Trusts
(especially calling a Company an institution that should deal only with the
health of the citizen, but that's it...) have relocated all these people within
their administrative structures, effectively going to cover unforgivable
shortcomings and disservices, and I am not afraid to say that, after almost a
year, our work has become indispensable. Yet let's look at the facts: we have
been classified in the most hateful of ways, with the VAT number, as freelancers
(which, obviously, does not correspond to the reality of our way of working), or
with ridiculous Co.co.co contracts. We are therefore deprived of all the
protections of employee work: we have no right to sickness (and obviously all, or
almost all, have fallen ill with COVID, and absurdly none of us - who were "in
the trenches against the virus" (sic!) - was paid on the days in which he was
forced to stay at home), we have no right to holidays and rest (and we worked
like this for two years, without even a day off, if not a few days of unpaid
rest) and, since now we are no longer heroes but we have become a burden and
attempts are being made in every way to throw us out, we don't even have the
right to social protection and safety nets. In other words, we've seen each
other, and forget about unemployment. The political class did nothing but make
fun of us (and were there any doubts?), like good sophist charmers they did
nothing but weave word after word, even forgetting to vote on the laws that would
have allowed us to continue working, laws that they themselves had proposed and
assured us would be voted on. And so we go on with extensions and extensions,
with a progressive reduction in working hours. And in certain provinces,
personnel have already begun to leave the door, with communications arriving
during New Year's Eve or, recently, with simple resolutions. Politicians continue
to repeat that it is the fault of our contractual framework, of our selection
method (we were selected with a click day), the fault of the fact that there is
no money, always the fault of something else. But who is it that allowed this
framing? Who allowed this selection method? Who, if not them, is the author of
this havoc? We workers are only passively watching the destruction of our
dignity. Because it is not possible that when we were needed, in the midst of the
pandemic, we were contacted even in the middle of the night, at any hour, in
order to fight the virus, which is another way of saying that we have been the
pillars of a malfunctioning and unsteady healthcare system. torn apart and
destroyed by years of cuts and reductions in funds and personnel, where the money
is never there except for those who have to eat it, where scandals and corruption
are countless. This money, however, is not there for the workers. Workers who are
now waiting for yet another mockery, waiting for a contract that will expire,
once again, on February 28. Workers that politicians (of every color and
alignment) have done nothing but cajole and delude with their usual false
promises, to keep us quiet, to keep us from taking to the streets.  And if this
story should teach us something, it is never to trust the political class, those
in power who are incapable of addressing others unless they are considered as an
electoral mass, never trusting those who, from situations like this, only have to
gain, but instead to trust only ourselves and our abilities and to organise,
prepare, plan actions of struggle and claim without being afraid of what the
politicians might "say", because their job is to make fun of us (and to exercise
it they are paid handsomely), ours, on the other hand, they have to let us do it.
And if they won't let us then we should start thinking about it ourselves.

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