19 December 2007

The never-ending slaughter

The spotlight on the five people that died at the ThyssenKrupp plant in Turin have now been turned off, however, workplace fatalities are currently following hot on each other’s heels in an appalling manner. Today alone, another five people have died: in a foundry in the Province of Alessandria, in a workshop in Venice and at a sewerage plant construction site in Rome, as well as at Vignola and Melfi.
This kind of daily tragedy, which is the result of a work culture that is founded mainly, or perhaps even entirely on profit, and also the result of the inadequacy of the penalties facing those responsible, needs to be broadcast continuously and effectively.
My Blog, and that of the “Italia Dei Valori” Party, will soon be publishing these so-called white deaths: numbers, names, companies and causes, on a daily basis. I want to open urgent discussions within Government, in order to discuss the relationship (because there certainly is a relationship) between temporary employment and work-related fatalities, as well as any possible legislative solutions.
In fact, we cannot deny that a temporary worker is easily blackmailed and is thus obliged to risk his life in order to keep his job. Furthermore, the temporary worker employed for short periods of time in a factory or a company is often not given the adequate time or training necessary in order to avoid the risks that are sometimes even fatal.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Work