Un new plan within maintenance di OctoberTo save what can be saved and, above all, prevent the closure of factories and the resulting redundancies. The case concerns the Swedish multinational. Electrolux, which, moreover, is incumbent upon potential interest from China's MideaThe broader scenario concerns instead the entire Italian household appliance supply chain which is experiencing a period of great suffering. In such a tense and worrying climate for the maintenance of production sites – 5 in Italy those of Electrolux – in addition to the jobs, the issue of the dispute continues to impose itself: the unions, in fact, have decided to intensify the protest with 8 hours of strike – in the Electrolux factories – jointly proclaimed by Fiom, Fim and Uilm for the day of Monday October 5The date is the one scheduled for the meeting at the Mimit in Rome between the parties involved, including trade union representatives, who have planned a sit-in at the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy.
Electrolux: 1.450 redundancies and the closure of the Marche plant
“After the technical meetings and the big demonstration in Cerreto last September 15th – says Manuel Moretto, secretary of Fiom of Treviso – Electrolux workers all over Italy will strike and protest in a picket in Rome for defend their jobs, their rights and reiterate that the redundancy plan submitted by the company must be withdrawn in whole and that the Marche site is untouchableReady to face the meeting at Mimit, we are also collecting the signatures among the workers of Susegana to participate forcefully in the demonstration on Monday morning."
And again: the workers "say a firm and uncompromising no to the wicked industrial plan, to the layoffs, at the closing of Cerreto, to the exploitation of the workers in the factory Solaro"For Francesco Caruso, secretary of the Uilm Milano Monza e Brianza union, "we are faced with an irresponsible corporate decision that tramples on the dignity of hundreds of families and impoverishes an entire region. We will not allow our country's industrial heritage to be dismantled amidst widespread indifference. On Monday we will be under the windows of the ministry in Rome To loudly proclaim that jobs will not be lost. We are not asking the government and the company for handouts or colorful patches, but for a real industrial plan that brings real investment, new hires, and a concrete revitalization of all Italian factories. Until we have guarantees about the future and people's rights, our protest will not stop.
The minister: "We must find an agreement by the end of October."
The company has asked for a change in European rules, and we've said we'll do it. The new plan must be written together to some extent, it must be sustainable for workers and the company, and it must be finalized by October, because Electrolux Group will decide on its global reorganization in early November“. This was stated by the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, on the sidelines of a Confindustria Marche event in Ancona.
Changing the rules at the European level becomes the prerequisite for "the relaunch of the white goods industry on our continent." Urso recalled that he managed to include in the European agenda "the revision of the rules for the household appliance sector, with the support of other major countries such as Germany, France, Spain, Poland, and Slovakia, who, along with us, are asking the Commission for new safeguard measures and new measures, including financial ones, to encourage household appliance companies to produce in Europe“On Monday, the company will return to the Mimit table, where it last showed up confirming a plan with 1.450 redundancies , closure of the Cerreto d'Esi plant in the Marche region, which employs 170 workers. “I think I will bring this to the table on Monday,” the minister concluded, “so that we can begin a new phase in the best possible way, outlining the changes we will be able to bring to our European continent to safeguard Italian and European products from unfair competition from China, and Asia in general, and to incentivize it through specific financial resources earmarked for this sector in the next program of the European Competitiveness Fund.”
