The Italian household appliance sector does not seem to find peace. To the dispute of the Embraco of Riva di Chieri (To), of which the American multinational Whirlpool announced the closure, today there is the risk of adding, for completely different and all Italian reasons, also JP Industries (ex-Antonio Merloni) and with it, the over 700 workers.
The JP Group took over the two Ex-Merloni plants in Umbria and in the Marches, to which the story of Ghergo Gi &E is connected. "The production of refrigerators and washing machines respectively – declared the Secretary General of End Cisl Marco Bentivogli in a note released by the union -, for years now is facing the aftermath of a dispute brought by the creditor banks of the former Merloni: Mps and Unicredit to Veneto Banca”.
"The lack of openness to credit on the part of the banks - continued Bentivogli - is in fact risking destroying the only possibility of relaunching the two sites, which at this stage, could hook the even timid recovery of the white market. There are 700 jobs at risk, in a territory like that of Central Italy already hit hard by the earthquake and the crisis. Government intervention is needed so that, subject to the due guarantees of the industrial recovery plan, the banks open with the necessary financial resources, responsibilities cannot be unloaded on the workers for which they have no fault ".
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