Ditching The Fear, The Logistics Workers Movement in Italy, Sat 6 February, 2016 CCA

CCA

Plan C & Counterinfo Lab: Ditching the Fear – The Logistics Workers’ Movement in Italy

Sat 6 February 2016

CCA

CCA

7pm, Free, Cinema
All ages
Book online / 0141 352 4900

A recent documentary about logistic workers in Italy portraying the struggle of mainly migrant workers against the harsh labour regime within logistics and how this put workers’ self-organisation back on the wider political agenda.

Since the financial crisis in 2008, states, companies, and politicians have increasingly undermined workers’ and union rights all over Europe and beyond. However, unusual events have occurred in the southern Europe countries most hit by European austerity policies. We see low-wage workers developing new forms of effective and lively resistance. The documentary Ditching The Fear follows the struggles and actions taken by precarious migrant workers in Italian warehouses and logistics companies. Over ten days, the embedded film team discusses, fights with and documents what can be understood as the forefront of a new workers’ movement. With the help and experience of the grassroots union SI-COBAS, the migrant workers are effectively organising against their isolating and degrading working conditions, displaying a solidarity that is changing their work and lives. 



The documentary (80mins) is in Italian with English subtitles. 
It has been produced by the team at labournet.tv and will be presented in Glasgow by Plan C and CounterinfoLab. The film will be followed by a discussion on recent struggles within logistics in Italy, India, Germany, and the UK. The producer will be present.

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