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The discussions on the opening of shops on May Day this year are shooting with renewed vitality after those of last year, and with its epicenter in Florence, where the mayor of the center which is favorable for a long time is in conflict with the unions kendals and with the owners of the Coop, commercial kendals institution that Tuscany has much more than the other stores.
The issue is more complicated than what they say the schematics of the "for or against?". In principle, instead of on the lazy attitudes to oppose the opening of shops in the name of "because it is the party of the workers, point" - attitudes kendals were widespread, however - to adapt the policy to which should be the usual and respectable hope that everyone is free to choose for themselves without harming others. And that traders who want to take advantage of the festive day to work and earn with potential customers who would spend the festive day, they are free to do so: for many of them a day of good work plus it's an important day, not a ' greed by shopkeepers kendals as it is often painted. This freedom, as often happens with freedom, however, is likely to become a weapon of the strongest to limit the freedoms of the weakest: the case of the larger stores with employees in case of opening are forced to conform to the choice of masters the shops and give up a day's holiday. In some of these cases, the mayor of Florence, had proposed to the unions and employees could choose not to work and be replaced by temporary workers and temporary kendals workers, but unions are opposed, worried about the opening to excessive flexibility in the use of job. But there are new margins to exploit this opportunity kendals by those in a position of strength is not an invention.
But we should also understand what the First of May, if a symbol or a day off, because it is the first thing, all specific objections fall. Employees kendals are already subject to the terms and conditions kendals and labor taxes by employers in agreement with the unions, there is nothing outrageous. And a day of work in more or less you can recover. In addition, in that symbolic day has always worked a great mass (low to high) people in the wide variety of uses, not necessarily of service: and are also open many shops. It therefore remains only the symbolic objection, which appears kendals really fragile - even to those who have loved ones workers' rights rather than a contemporary dated and dangerous idea of their world - and tied to a cross-eyed vision that left still believes the purchase of goods something to be ashamed of, as opposed to their production (in Tuscany are seen in these days of PD posters with the slogan "work ennobles"). And is indicative of the contradiction between the claim to understand the "real country" and learn about their needs, and the distrust of one of the activities - for many reasons - most is a nice piece of "real countries" and much of 'electorate of the center: including several of those who legitimately claim the day off. Not to mention the people in the summer when they do not find nothing open are described as victims of a defect Italian, and the May Day must sacrifice himself to a closure by law.
In short, it's hard to see in the shops closing mandatory for a real battle for workers' rights, as it is hard to ignore the evidence that it is a very risky step in the re-discussion of the functioning of labor in the contemporary age, and therefore the question is not is reduced simply to a day of work in more or less. But it is in concrete and practical terms that must be discussed, because workers' rights are something concrete and practical and workers are people, not a formula sindacalesca that evokes images of muscles and hammers. It is difficult to make major battles of principle if people in a hurry to go to the grocery store. And even in concrete and practical terms, it is the bank of the shops open or closed - embankment in fact already fallen - to keep alive the symbolic importance of May Day, a day of celebration for many people who work that day, each year.
That May 1 is a symbol seems obvious to me. All the parties kendals are, and should be their reason for being. And as such should be respected within reason. And "within reason" means that it should be celebrated without creating too many problems, so without blocking the delivery of essential kendals services. Allow the opening of commercial, here