Andrea Palladino
This story could begin in one of the many marinas along the coast of Latium, not far from Rome, where luxury yachts and small sailboats show the face of the crisis lasts longer, that of masters and plunderers. "Lady Canvas' is a racing boat that has an unknown owner, the Neapolitan Arcobelli Giorgio Varese. The name has nothing to say to those who did not go at least once in the infernal circles of call centers, assembly lines where the nineteenth-century master of the ironworks often hide behind corporate vortices, a series of Chinese boxes that appear and fade away at times in a few hours . The Canvas Lady owner last week was the most sought after by a group of workers and employees of Pomezia, without pay for about a year. The company was last known Herla Italy srl.
The name of this elegant Neapolitan boat - with a passion for the call center and corporate clutter - everything has a meaning particular. He tells one of the many girls who yesterday occupied the building mirror Pomezia, affecting nearly 400 call center, "The canvas is our prize, which may be a television, a phone, a computer. The player who makes the vendor who is able to take clients with the winning phone call. " The canvas is the kind of totem that runs call centers in the world of work, makes you dream, you drug productivity and overwork. Who knows, maybe it was this thought that the owner of yesteryear Arcobelli Giorgio Varese, when his racing yacht put that mysterious name, Lady Canvas. Or maybe that was his prize, his whim for the weekend as skipper.
sailing clubs in the capital, where the boat makes its fine show, certainly not talking about those 400 workers who will receive on average € 10,000 per person in arrears, after having worked for years selling everything. For a week forty of them have occupied the job, the two-storey building on the outskirts of Pomezia, an industrial city on the outskirts of Rome. They climbed on the roofs, by binding to the gate, retracing the path of thousands of workers over the past two years have been overwhelmed by the crisis. In their case, however, the problem is not the decline of orders or the financial storm: no layoffs, no mobility, they simply stopped to pay them. "And the most amazing thing - he says - and that our clients, Edison and the Matrix, the company that sells advertising space on virgilio.it have always paid their regular jobs."
from Ireland to Romania
"We have arrived in recent days, called by the workers who are in a desperate situation," says Gianni and Dino Leonetti CGIL Pomezia today, of the SLC-CGIL Lazio. An overview of the flow chamber, reading contracts, sale of business units, draw on white sheets of the complex cross-company revolving around George Arcobelli Varese. "You'll see that he only appears as a minority shareholder - told the workers - but in fact everyone here knows that George is the boss. So much so that when we started to complain he has not done more to see and now sends his only advocate. " As in other stories of call center workers and abandoned at the top of the Pyramids, there are financial groups hiding out from the Italian border.
The Herla Italy depends Herla Holding Ltd., a company based in Dublin, Ireland. Last March, has signed a lease of a business by another group company, the Sercomm Ltd., where he inherited - as stated in the contract - 327 employees operating 22 non-operational and 15 staff, for a total of 364 workers. Most of them had been "stabilized" in the past, or hired with permanent contracts. Stable workers, guaranteed, which had reached their half. "They have not started to pay us more when we were already in arrears from the previous company, we had succumbed to Herla," they explain. Not only that. By the time the call center operators realize that even the contributions were paid, and start to worry. "But we are a fully operational - a boy tells his thirties - so much so that in four months a group of only 15 players managed to bring a revenue of one million euro: now we will pay we said. " But nothing happened, except that the money came out had been used to open a call center in Albania and one in Romania.
All against all
The change came in September. First, are found within the company employed more difficult to manage, those who allowed themselves to seek enforcement of rights, to challenge the waste to make the breaks guaranteed by contract and, above all, to the payment of salaries. Forty in all, mostly guys with experience who were familiar with the company where they worked well. "We were isolated, they have come to prohibit others to talk to us during the breaks, "they explain. A month ago Arcobelli Giorgio Varese and his wife, Marilena D'Orazio, invited one by one the workers softer - or perhaps frightened by the mere idea of \u200b\u200blosing her job - at a convention in a hotel in Pomezia. "You, Marion, began to cry, he was embracing - says today those who participated - and ultimately to those who had gone to the meeting suggested that the agreement would save them." Three pages in all, very shameful, "For six hundred euro had to give up their claims, including the open-ended contract, only to be taken, so to speak, with contracts for projects in a new society." And here and as if by magic, hundreds of employees of a company in crisis do not become cumbersome to employees in light, light and definitely more employees blackmail 'to project'. The new company, Fidecomm, was ready to take the baton, the same premises, with the same tasks and, perhaps, with some of the same order.
Computer and threats
Last week, the forty halter excluded from the agreement have now realized that their fate was sealed. They occupied the premises, the rooftop of the factory, first, and in a skyscraper abandoned shortly after. For now, nobody has sent the vigilantes to drive them, as happened with Eutelia. "Someone, however, has called on the phones - they tell the workers - with a southern accent and told us that if we did not go away Something bad would happen. Phone calls coming from non-existent, as is sometimes the case with the systems for call centers. " For now, at night, skilled hands have disappeared and the two anonymous computer administration, coming from an external port without forcing the lock and then simulating the rupture inside the entrance, as if to put the blame on workers occupy the premises.
Last Friday the company's lawyers have offered an initial payment of 900 euro - most of them should receive more than 10 000 € - and a negotiating table in front of the prefect. It seems clear, therefore, that the group managed by Giorgio Varese Arcobelli in a hurry to leave the premises and to launch the new company. "But we do not go there until they are paid all salaries - mark Herla workers - and until all rights will be respected. Nobody can divide us. " Two sides of the crisis, the yacht's owner and the courageous resistance of the boat who has paid.
The name of this elegant Neapolitan boat - with a passion for the call center and corporate clutter - everything has a meaning particular. He tells one of the many girls who yesterday occupied the building mirror Pomezia, affecting nearly 400 call center, "The canvas is our prize, which may be a television, a phone, a computer. The player who makes the vendor who is able to take clients with the winning phone call. " The canvas is the kind of totem that runs call centers in the world of work, makes you dream, you drug productivity and overwork. Who knows, maybe it was this thought that the owner of yesteryear Arcobelli Giorgio Varese, when his racing yacht put that mysterious name, Lady Canvas. Or maybe that was his prize, his whim for the weekend as skipper.
sailing clubs in the capital, where the boat makes its fine show, certainly not talking about those 400 workers who will receive on average € 10,000 per person in arrears, after having worked for years selling everything. For a week forty of them have occupied the job, the two-storey building on the outskirts of Pomezia, an industrial city on the outskirts of Rome. They climbed on the roofs, by binding to the gate, retracing the path of thousands of workers over the past two years have been overwhelmed by the crisis. In their case, however, the problem is not the decline of orders or the financial storm: no layoffs, no mobility, they simply stopped to pay them. "And the most amazing thing - he says - and that our clients, Edison and the Matrix, the company that sells advertising space on virgilio.it have always paid their regular jobs."
from Ireland to Romania
"We have arrived in recent days, called by the workers who are in a desperate situation," says Gianni and Dino Leonetti CGIL Pomezia today, of the SLC-CGIL Lazio. An overview of the flow chamber, reading contracts, sale of business units, draw on white sheets of the complex cross-company revolving around George Arcobelli Varese. "You'll see that he only appears as a minority shareholder - told the workers - but in fact everyone here knows that George is the boss. So much so that when we started to complain he has not done more to see and now sends his only advocate. " As in other stories of call center workers and abandoned at the top of the Pyramids, there are financial groups hiding out from the Italian border.
The Herla Italy depends Herla Holding Ltd., a company based in Dublin, Ireland. Last March, has signed a lease of a business by another group company, the Sercomm Ltd., where he inherited - as stated in the contract - 327 employees operating 22 non-operational and 15 staff, for a total of 364 workers. Most of them had been "stabilized" in the past, or hired with permanent contracts. Stable workers, guaranteed, which had reached their half. "They have not started to pay us more when we were already in arrears from the previous company, we had succumbed to Herla," they explain. Not only that. By the time the call center operators realize that even the contributions were paid, and start to worry. "But we are a fully operational - a boy tells his thirties - so much so that in four months a group of only 15 players managed to bring a revenue of one million euro: now we will pay we said. " But nothing happened, except that the money came out had been used to open a call center in Albania and one in Romania.
All against all
The change came in September. First, are found within the company employed more difficult to manage, those who allowed themselves to seek enforcement of rights, to challenge the waste to make the breaks guaranteed by contract and, above all, to the payment of salaries. Forty in all, mostly guys with experience who were familiar with the company where they worked well. "We were isolated, they have come to prohibit others to talk to us during the breaks, "they explain. A month ago Arcobelli Giorgio Varese and his wife, Marilena D'Orazio, invited one by one the workers softer - or perhaps frightened by the mere idea of \u200b\u200blosing her job - at a convention in a hotel in Pomezia. "You, Marion, began to cry, he was embracing - says today those who participated - and ultimately to those who had gone to the meeting suggested that the agreement would save them." Three pages in all, very shameful, "For six hundred euro had to give up their claims, including the open-ended contract, only to be taken, so to speak, with contracts for projects in a new society." And here and as if by magic, hundreds of employees of a company in crisis do not become cumbersome to employees in light, light and definitely more employees blackmail 'to project'. The new company, Fidecomm, was ready to take the baton, the same premises, with the same tasks and, perhaps, with some of the same order.
Computer and threats
Last week, the forty halter excluded from the agreement have now realized that their fate was sealed. They occupied the premises, the rooftop of the factory, first, and in a skyscraper abandoned shortly after. For now, nobody has sent the vigilantes to drive them, as happened with Eutelia. "Someone, however, has called on the phones - they tell the workers - with a southern accent and told us that if we did not go away Something bad would happen. Phone calls coming from non-existent, as is sometimes the case with the systems for call centers. " For now, at night, skilled hands have disappeared and the two anonymous computer administration, coming from an external port without forcing the lock and then simulating the rupture inside the entrance, as if to put the blame on workers occupy the premises.
Last Friday the company's lawyers have offered an initial payment of 900 euro - most of them should receive more than 10 000 € - and a negotiating table in front of the prefect. It seems clear, therefore, that the group managed by Giorgio Varese Arcobelli in a hurry to leave the premises and to launch the new company. "But we do not go there until they are paid all salaries - mark Herla workers - and until all rights will be respected. Nobody can divide us. " Two sides of the crisis, the yacht's owner and the courageous resistance of the boat who has paid.
Link: http://www.ilmanifesto.it/archivi/fuoripagina/anno/2010/mese/10/articolo/3494/
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