Italy 2014
Despite the economic crisis, the logistics sector has suceeded in making profits:
through the hyper- exploitation of migrants.
Of all places, it is here that an unexpected resistance is emerging.
You see? PosteItaliane, they're going to SDA
We are opressed, underpaid the trucks are unsafe;
The wages aren't paid, no-one cares
They do whatever they want. We work twelve hours
and they don't even pay us for four.
He also tried to invite girls out for dinner.
Some agreed, others didn't.
The girls who refused, he cancelled their shifts
or sent them to a different workplace.
No, we were fed up.
The news that there had been successful strikes
that a new militant rank-and-file union called SI Cobas had been established
spread like wildfire.
I've been talking about it with the girls since 2012
because I'd heard about this union called SI Cobas.
We asked friends, they said the SI Cobas helps.
The only union that defends the worker is them.
Become members, because with them things will get going.
They won't let you down.
Mafia, Mafia!
Wrong payslips! Wrong, wrong!
Strike! Strike!
We opened a bottle and it was like a liquid that wanted to explode,
when we uncorked the bottle, it exploded
and we showed them it was possible
to take part in struggles and win them.
Finally we rose up. Some of us stuck together
and ditched the fear they had always put inside us.
with their threats.
But finally some of us were courageous and went on strike.
We are united - Logistics Workers