14:56 April 16, 2015
(AGI) – Rome, April 16 – The Whirlpool announced 1,350 redundancies and the closure of the Caserta, Albacina and None. Announces Gianluca Ficco, coordinator of the area of national Uilm.
“Whirlpool – says – presented this morning at the Ministry of Economic Development its integration plan with the newly acquired Indesit for the part related factories and research centers, activities’ which now employ 5,150 workers, reserving the right to present by the end of June a further integration plan relating to other clerical functions, who currently occupy 1,400 people.
The multinational American, despite a planned investment of five hundred million in four years, and despite the prospect of an increase in overall production volumes in Italy, said 1,350 redundancies, of which 1,200 in factories and research centers in the 150, announcing the closure of Caserta they work more ‘than eight hundred people, the cessation of one of the two plants in Fabriano (Ancona), precisely to Albacina whose six hundred workers according to the project company should be transferred to the nearby factory Melano, and the decommissioning of the site of Finland (Turin), where there are currently ninety employees between the warehouse and the research center. “
” The plan provides conversely – said the union – the growth of some factories, particularly that of Varese where promises an increase in employment of 280 people, and that of Melano, where he would again concentrated the production of hobs “. “We have expressed our more ‘profound disagreement – Ficco concludes – and we asked Whirlpool to respect the previous agreements, including that inherited the Indesit and just signed at ministerial little more’ than a year ago, according to which all the factories have a productive mission and until 2019 no worker can ‘be fired. We trust that the government will help us to enforce that understanding of which he himself was part of. ” The next meeting between unions and Whirlpool and ‘expected Monday’ 20 in Rome, for the illustration more ‘detailed plan.
COMPANY, “400 SPEC MORE’, READY TO DIALOGUE” – There are 400 additional redundancies in the strategic plan of Whirpool after the acquisition of Indesit. This was specified in a statement the US multinational, clarifying that will be 250 plants and 150 in research and development.
“More redundancies than those existing at the time of the acquisition were kept at the level more ‘low as possible “, the note continues, noting that” in line with the industrial relations model of Whirlpool, the company has’ made immediately available to an open and transparent dialogue with all stakeholders in order to define the next steps. ” The guiding principle of the plan and ‘”minimize the impact” on people and communities’ involved. Consequently, “Whirlpool and ‘willing to consider solutions that avoid procedures mobilizes’ unilateral until the end of 2018″.
MISE, “NO TO DISMISSAL UNILATERAL” – “Strong opposition ‘” the announcement of the redundancies made today by Whirlpool is expressed by the Minister of Economic Development and the Ministry of Federica Guidi Teresa Bellanova work: the government also invites the company to “refrain from unilateral layoffs.” It says a note from the Mise that refers to the meeting had this morning with the head of the company which submitted the plan this morning which will bring ‘complete integration with Indesit in Italy. The plan, the statement said, “provides, among other things, an investment of 500 million euro in four years aimed at research and development, to the renewal of product platforms and the improvement of production processes. The plan also provides for an increase production volumes and the return to Italy of productions now present in plants worldwide. The plan presented today but ‘also reported indications about the total number of redundancies in the activities’ manufacturing and R & amp; D, particularly significant for the site of Caserta ” . For its part, “the Government has taken note of the positive aspects and certainly important in terms of investments and increased volumes, but at the same time expressed strong opposition ‘for issues related to the employment impact inherent in different production sites, some of which in areas of the country already ‘hit by de-industrialization “.
The government therefore has clearly reiterated to consider this first meeting as the beginning of a confrontation that will develop’ in the coming weeks. The Government has now asked the company to confirm the commitment not to lay off one-sided. The Government remains committed to research with the parties every possible solution to remove the negative aspects of the plan beginning with serious repercussions on the employment front.
FIOM ANCONA, “STRIKE AND MEETINGS” – Immediate opening state of agitation, strike and meeting with workers for a first assessment of the situation. This was announced by Fabrizio Dachshunds, FIOM CGIL of Ancona, after the group Whirpool has formalized the project you want to close the plant former Indesit Albacina, near Fabriano (along with those of Caserta and None, in Piemonte: 1350 layoffs). “The Americans want to cannibalize Whirpool Indesit – says Dachshunds. Now they say that all those who had given assurances on production and employment, in the Marche Region and the Central Government?”.
Monday ‘on the plan just announced it earth ‘first National Coordination of the unions.
FIOM, “NO TO CLOSING OFFICES, GOVERNMENT INTERVENE” – A business plan with “important decisions” for Italy, but which also contains “decisions of locks that can not share “. Cosi ‘Michela Spera, national secretary Fiom, and Gianni Venturi, national coordinator for the group-Whirlpool Indesit, after meeting at the Ministry of Development, during which Whirpool illustrated the Group’s business plan after the acquisition of Indesit. “That presented today and ‘a plan that, while it contains important industrial choices for our country both in terms of investments in production volumes, with the return of products currently made in China, Turkey and Poland, from’ other contains the decision to close the plant former Indesit Carinaro in Campania and, although in times more ‘long, the closure of the center of Chile in Piedmont “explain the two trade unionists in a joint statement. “Decisions of closures that we can not share,” continued the two trade unionists stressing that “in Carinaro are more ‘than 800 workers and workers now employed in addition to the thousands of jobs already’ blown away.” Campania “is paying a high price in terms of employment”, so that “we are no longer ‘in the presence of individual disputes, but in front of a real’ dispute Campania ‘on which the government and the Region must say what they intend to do and on which we ask them to take immediate action. ” To accompany the union discussions that start ‘April 20, “once again the workers of Whirlpool will put in place initiatives and mobilizations.” (AGI).
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