(18 Oct 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 18 October 2024
1. Autoworkers marching past Trinità dei Monti above the Spanish Steps
2. St. Peter’s Basilica seen in distance
3. Various of autoworkers carrying union flags during protest
4. Police and protesters standing around
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alberto Zanetti, Secretary-General of the UIL Union, Modena:
“In fact, people are working six days every two months. It is a direction that cannot go on. We are asking for investment, we are asking for solutions to problems, we are asking for work.”
6. Wide of protesters carrying banner reading (Italian): “For love of the environment I am at home doing nothing.”
7. Autoworkers waving flags during protest
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Riccardo Flacetta, Secretary-General of the UIL Union, Metalworkers of Bari:
“We are working one to two days a week when it goes well. So, what we are saying today to the government is that the transition (ecological), is not a transition for which only, and exclusively has to be paid for by the metalworkers.”
9. Protesters carrying banner reading (Italian): “The solution…gradual and neutral technology, not just electric.”
10. Flags
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marianna Manna, City Councillor for Work in the town of Pomigliano D’Arco:
“For us all the economic spinoff from around the factory, and the factory itself, is to be protected with all possible efforts, above all with an active and loyal collaboration with the unions that represent the protection and rights of workers.”
12. Police at march
13. Workers holding banner
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marco Landini, Secretary-General of the CGIL Union:
“We have to get the money where it is now, to crack down on tax evasion, to tax the big earners both in the financial world and real estate because that is where there is the money and the resources to make the investments that we need in health care, in schools and in industry.”
15. Autoworkers marching
16. Workers with red umbrellas and flags
17. Police walking ahead of marchers
18. Marchers with flags
STORYLINE:
Workers in Italy’s troubled automotive sector marched through the streets of Rome Friday, demanding more work and better economic treatment.
The strike, called by the sector’s three main unions, comes amid rising tensions between global automaker Stellantis and the Italian far-right government, which accuses the car-making giant of relocating assembly plants to low-cost countries.
Stellantis, the world’s fourth largest automaker, is under pressure globally to provide clarity about its future production plans, as it faces growing competition and financial strains.
The multinational group, which was created in 2021 from the merger of Fiat-Chrysler with PSA Peugeot, recorded a sharp drop in output at most of its Italian plants in the first half of 2024.
Over the past 17 years, the carmaker has slashed its Italian production by nearly 70%.
CEO Carlos Tavares has recently blamed EU carbon emission rules for hiking production costs, suggesting that the group may be forced to close some assembly plants to face competition from China.
He said he “could not rule out” job cuts, reiterating the need for additional state incentives to spur demand for electric cars.
Stellantis, which makes Jeep and Chrysler vehicles, has been in the spotlight following a concerning profit warning in which the company said it expected to finish the year with a negative cash flow of up to 10 billion euros ($11.2 billion).
AP video shot by Paolo Lucariello
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