Giorgio Meletti

q:it:Giorgio Meletti (born 1958), Italian journalist.

Quotes

[Regarding the upcoming elections for President of the Italian Republic in 2013] Franco Marini turned 80 last week and is preparing for his final attempt to crown a career marked by prudence, impartiality, good neighbourliness, and a popular wisdom of which he is considered a masterful prophet.
- [Riguardo le imminenti elezioni del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana nel 2013] Franco Marini ha compiuto la settimana scorsa 80 anni e si prepara all'ultimo tentativo di coronare una carriera tutta nel nome della prudenza, dell’equidistanza, del buon vicinato, sempre in nome di una saggezza popolare della quale si ritiene magistrale profeta.
  - As quoted in Presidente della Repubblica: Marini, l'ex sindacalista che ama dar ragione a tutti, ilfattoquotidiano (April 18, 2013)
Letta learned from the Christian Democratic school that you cannot hold on to power for 50 years just by making compromises and taking steps backwards: there comes a time when you have to draw a line. In a word, take risks.
- Letta alla scuola democristiana ha imparato che non mantieni il potere per 50 anni solo con compromessi e passi indietro: c'è anche il momento in cui devi tirare una linea. In una parola, rischiare.
  - As quoted in Letta: quando il gioco si fa duro il democristiano diventa cattivo, Ilfattoquotidiano.it (September 21, 2013)

La paga dei padroni

Gianni Dragoni e Giorgio Meletti, La paga dei padroni, Chiarelettere, 2008. ISBN 9788861900578
Incipit

Nine million, 427 thousand euros. That is how much Unicredit bank paid its CEO Alessandro Profumo in compensation for 2007. It comes as no surprise that the 51-year-old Genoese banker was the highest-paid Italian manager of the year. In a short time, he has turned the old Credito Italiano into one of the strongest and most innovative banks in Europe and has earned an excellent professional reputation in the field.

Profumo earned over 25,000 euros per day. According to Ires, the research centre of the CGIL trade union, in 2007 Italian employees earned an average of 24,890 euros gross. This means that the head of Unicredit earned as much in a day as the average worker earns in a year. A normal worker or employee would have to work 365 years to earn what Profumo earned in twelve months. In other words, it would take at least ten generations of average workers to earn the same amount.

=Nel paese dei Moratti

Giorgio Meletti, Nel paese dei Moratti. Sarroch-Italia: una storia ordinaria di capitalismo coloniale, Chiarelettere, 2010. ISBN 9788861901186
Incipit

Deaths at work are not a meteorological phenomenon. In 2009, in Italy, they fell below a thousand for the first time, three for every working day, and according to INAIL (the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), the decline is also due to the crisis and the economic slowdown. In our system, therefore, a certain number of corpses is considered a natural product of industrial metabolism.

On 26 May 2009, in Sarroch, in the province of Cagliari, three workers lost their lives inside Saras, one of the largest and most modern refineries in Europe. An absurd accident, apparently inexplicable. The Italian press covered it for a couple of days, then lost interest.

Contributing to this distraction was the fact that the brothers Gianmarco and Massimo Moratti, owners of the company, are among the richest men in Italy. For half a century, that gigantic still, built by Angelo Moratti in a corner of Sardinia so beautiful that it is called the Gulf of Angels, has been pumping an impressive amount of profits towards Milan. No one knows where that money ends up, as is only right; despite the proportions, we are still talking about the private affairs of a family.

Bibliography

Gianni Dragoni e Giorgio Meletti, La paga dei padroni, Chiarelettere, 2008. ISBN 9788861900578
Giorgio Meletti, Nel paese dei Moratti. Sarroch-Italia: una storia ordinaria di capitalismo coloniale, Chiarelettere, 2010. ISBN 9788861901186