Only some of the most vibrant, artistic, and emotional people on earth — Italians — could have come up with such an effective form of upholding work rights: being at the workplace and working “sweat” … not working for a second.
Instruction manual
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Kindergarten teachers and teachers know that in almost every kindergarten there are such children who do not act up, do not sob sobbing, do not defend their own opinion with all the ardor of youthful maximalism - not at all. They are "quieters." Quietly, corrosively, they bring others to white heat and almost always achieve their goal.
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The principle of the Italian strike is approximately the same: quietly, aggressively, without excesses and loud statements to achieve your goal. With one nuance - "quiet" should not be alone.
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All requirements of employers are complied with, all instructions are followed. Moreover, they are not just respected, they are executed from point to point. Persistently and rigorously.
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If the instructions say that the files should be stapled with staples number 8, pierced and bound with twine number 3, then be sure: if the office employee does not have staples number 8 and twine number 3, but there will be staples and twine with at least a small, but deviation, files will not be processed. The employee will not violate a single nuance of the instruction.
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The meticulous observance of labor laws and instructions, which they especially like to issue in budgetary state organizations, is the main tool of employees who decide to assert their rights using the methods and principles of the Italian strike.
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For efficiency and results, it is only important that the whole team is involved in this kind of strike. Mass and cohesion are important.
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If the company or organization is private, the principle of mass character is especially important so that the opposite effect does not happen when the employer, using his power to punish or pardon - dismiss or encourage - would not decide to apply the effect of psychological mobbing to one or more employees.
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In principle, the Italian strike is an extremely effective measure of influence on the employer and competent leaders know this from historical experience. The best of them are trying to prevent such protests, so as not to disrupt their consequences later.
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From the point of view of the law, everything is legal. Employees arrive at their jobs on time, they do not sit idle, they perform their usual work. But, at the same time, they do not depart one hundred percent from the prescriptions: second by second, they observe the prescribed minutes for rest and lunch break, they never do beyond the prescribed limits. Perseverance, and even more so zeal, in obtaining an effective result from the process from them is also not expected.
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History, unfortunately, did not preserve accurate information about who used the protest for the first time more than a hundred years ago - the Italian police or Italian railway workers, but the fact remains: the actions of the Italians on strike were so effective that not only the country remained in history, for the first time applying this method, this type of protest has numerous followers in different countries of the world.
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Simply put, an Italian strike is a mandatory stay at the workplace with an absolute imitation of the work process.
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Imitation of violent action, imitation of work with minimal interest in its result - is destructive for any economy, for any business.
