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while GKN management attempted to use the climate crisis against workers, citing it as a reason for closing the factory, the GKN factory collective maintains that, at its root, the climate emergency shares a common cause with the crises of deindustrialization and worker exploitation. For this reason, according to the workers of the collective, both problems need to be addressed simultaneously and at a structural level by the entire community. In the words of another worker-organizer, Massimo, "“What happened to us was the result of an interrelated series of events which eventually crushed all the rights and possibilities of the working class in this country and that therefore, to solve our problem, it was necessary to solve it fundamentally! And so we did not tell the community: 'Let’s save our jobs' we said: 'let’s rise up together to make sure that these processes are solved thoroughly and collectively.'"
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received a contract permitting these commissions in their factories. In May 1919, these commissions began to transfer into councils that were managing the factories and were dominating the power structure of said workplaces. The contract also prevented democratic elections of these council members or "stewards". In April 1920, at Fiat, there was the beginning of sit-in strikes by the workers, which eventually grew to 500,000 workers striking at its peak.
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cabinet of eighteen socialist, thirteen radicals and four independent socialist to govern. Communists supported the leader Leon Blum but refused to join the cabinet. This change in power was spurred by a massive general strike in the years preceding where thousands of factories had been occupied by French workers to ensure said democratic governance. Blum effectively ended the strike when this government came to power.
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their conflicts with the company very public. Workers traveled and occupied places other than factories as well. In
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