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Ferrari workers on strike, Italian style
Just because you spend your days in Maranello crafting F430s, 599s, and 612s, listen to them roar through the streets, and watch customers gleefully receive the keys to their new Italian toys doesn't mean life is perfect. Even though Ferrari was just voted as the best place to work in Europe, Ferrari workers have been on strike since March.
The main reason for the strike is that the workers want higher bonuses, among other things. But they are also unhappy because they believe the quality of Ferraris is declining. Fiat is simply trying to make too many of them to maintain the necessary quality standards that would live up to Ferrari's image. The unique thing about this strike: the workers only strike on Saturday, and not all of them at one time. Production has been slowed, but not stopped. Of course, none of the workers on the Formula 1 team are on strike -- that would be unthinkable.
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evlmnky 3:18PM (5/14/2007)
*raises hand*
Scab for hire?
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BOB 3:22PM (5/14/2007)
----AH, ITALY!!!!!!!!
Of course the workers only have partial Saturday strikes, so they can make a little statement, and get a little extra weekend time.
Years ago, I used to travel to Italy on business. Eventually, I noted that the hotel strikes and train strikes were usually on days with lovely weather. Why bother taking off work when it rains?
Such a wonderful country, with people who understand the joy of life -- we could take notes.
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Toy Yoda 3:38PM (5/14/2007)
On strike, because they want more money, but the big shocker is because they feel the quality has gone down. Has there ever been a strike in America for the latter reason? Talk about people who are passionate about cars.
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fizzandpop 3:48PM (5/14/2007)
This news is weeks old.
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scappy 3:50PM (5/14/2007)
quality has gone done = "overworked". Seems like their way of saying pay me more but i'll work less.
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Mr. Oak 4:05PM (5/14/2007)
Agree with the employees on the watered down issue. I used to be able to keep track of the models in production at Ferrari, but not anymore. I really don't even care what what they build anymore, not the garden variety Ferraris anyway. Not even sure what they've built since the Enzo.
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Peter Hill 5:25PM (5/14/2007)
----AH, ITALY!!!!!!!! "Italian strike" could be so stylish... Now Ferrari may win in "best place to strike in Europe" contest. :)
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aman 5:44PM (5/14/2007)
Wasn't this place recently voted "best place to work"? Like the EPA and CAFE, stats don't tell the whole story.
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Rocket Punch 8:46PM (5/14/2007)
Fire 1/3 of them and tell the others to work twice as hard.
Problem solved.
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Phillip 2:13AM (5/15/2007)
make #9 head of PR at Ferrari, no future problems aswell
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Phillip 2:13AM (5/15/2007)
*HR, not PR
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James 2:56AM (5/15/2007)
Mr. Oak has a problem keeping track of the three Ferraris in current production, even "garden variety" stuff like the F430, yet knows all about supposed quality problems...? Right.
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Peter 3:53PM (5/15/2007)
So they want volume to go down so quality will go up? Lower volume means lower profits -- so they are essentially striking in favor of pay cuts and layoffs.
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jay 1:58AM (5/16/2007)
@ 6
Do you have trouble keeping track of how many fingers you have? I'll give a hint. It's the same number as when you were born. Kinda like how Ferrari has the same number of models as they had 10 years ago. It's not like they're building half-assed SUVs and sedans like some other sellouts. Burn!
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