On 10 March 2021 a picket in front of textile factory Texprint was attacked by police.
The footage showing the police operation is presented with commentary by a SI Cobas unionist, recorded by Radio Onda Rossa.
On the same 10 March massive repression hit the workers of Fedex-TNT in Piacenza.
Yesterday, simultaneously with a police operation
against the unionized workers in Piacenza
the police carried out another operation
in Prato, at a textile company named Texprint.
For almost 40 days a strike post of workers
demands dignity, rights and wages there.
They work 12 to 14, sometimes even 16 hours a day, 7 days a week
and they don't have rights.
No right to holidays, no sick leave, the premiums aren't getting paid.
At a company that's been prohibited
yesterday, 10 minutes before the police operation,
to participate in biddings
due to its connections to the Mafia.
It's clear that not only workers of SI Cobas are affected,
or SI Cobas unionists.
This is an operation that hits every participant of the movement.
Everybody who builds the resisting powers in our conutry.
It's directed against everybody.
To answer this it's necessary to build a broad movement
to tackle these questions.
The workers are below the truck
yet they're still being dragged across the ground,
attacked and punched.
Can you say something about what has happened in Piacenza?
In Piacenza the declerations of the state prosecutor
can really make one's blood run cold in one's veins.
The workers' chanting of "Hard struggle - no fear!"
or "All for one!" is a "subversive element",
the prosecution that opened the investigations says.
At the same time the confederated unionists support the police actions
since especially in Piacenza many workers turn their backs
on these confederated unions
to sign up for class-based unions, in particular for SI Cobas.