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The new job in Turin: precarious, short and recommended.
Often, the collective, the idea that the "recommendation" is needed to find work, is associated with public work and southern Italy, but it is not.
A recent research commissioned by the province of Turin, shows that only 10% of the unemployed find work through the facilities authorized by the public, while more than half of those seeking jobs, "the place" find him through family members and acquaintances; the the rest was due to "personal".
Are excluded from research agencies that interim, however, do not go beyond 23% of starts working, maybe made on these people.
Even in big and rich north, away from Rome thief, the classic recommendation and still works there about the goodness of the policies that led to reducing the weight of public employment, as the legendary private did not give big results.
But what is working in Turin and what kind?
The areas in which occur more starts to work, are mostly industry (36%) and services to a significant distribution in commerce and tourism.
In the first nine months of 2007 about 242,000 starts to work only 20% is a time limit, the rest is precarious.
To do the lion's share of the fixed-term contracts (40%) and employment (23%), followed by apprenticeship (6%) and work on the project (6%), which, despite the rules off irregularities, saw in 2007 about 20,000 new start-workers.
But as you work?
In 70% of cases, the duration of the contract term is less than 3 months and 30% work less than 30 giorni.Per the interim be worse: the 9 0% of the contracts has a maturity of less than 3 months and 65% under 30 days.
Some considerations: the labor market in Turin is essentially run by a family culture and circuits of "knowledge" that escape from an organized both public and private.
The fragmentation of work and the resulting loneliness, hitting wide layers of young people who face the "responsible life", leading to insecurity about their prospects future.Tutto this must interrogate the union on its establishment and its capacity representation that can not be brought a unique reinterpretation of traditional practices on the bargaining.
We must reconcile work and its "security", including the passing of the Representation organized into categories but trying to bring a sense of struggle linked to the territory, or to the site to productive sectors trying to represent all the workers who contribute to produce the goods, whether material or immaterial, as in the case of services.
Of course, it should be noted that the level of insecurity is facilitated by laws and rules that allow entrepreneurs to choose and manage dominate people. The last agreement on welfare has not reduced this power, we must therefore start from a fight for changing laws, looking to local situations.
For this union can and must become a way of resettling the people who today is likely to be represented exclusively by populist parties.
Davide Franceschini
Article published on metropolis paper distributed on 1 May event in Turin.
