No strike at Ikea San Giovanni Teatino – The Centre

SAN GIOVANNI TEATINO. They have crossed their arms the 200 employees of the megastore Ikea San Giovanni Teatino, where the usual comings and goings of customers with carts loaded with boxes of furniture pieces to assemble at home was a working day like any other. Unlike their colleagues in other Italian stores of the Swedish furnishing giant low cost, Abruzzo workers have joined the strike, the first in over 20 years of Ikea in Italy – proclaimed by the trade unions Filcams Cgil, Cisl and Fisascat Uiltucs Uil – against the company’s decision to unilaterally withdraw the supplementary contract, as of September 1.

The cuts to the payroll relate to wage increases related to work on Sundays and public holidays, as well as production bonuses, which are a crucial component of salaries of more than 6,000 employees Ikea, distributed in 21 stores.

Under the slogan “Rights not taken down,” the unions have responded with the day of action, principals of workers in front of several of the multinational megastore yellow-blue. To “No Billy day”, named after the most famous bookcase with which employees of Bologna Ikea have dubbed the protest, there has been a national average of about 80% participation of workers, although the company yesterday afternoon He replied that “in most of the stores joining the strike was little or nothing.”

And one of the points of sale where there has been a halt, precisely to Abruzzo. Employees of Ikea San Giovanni Teatino not abstained from work, in the store, everything went into the usual routine. “Here there are not even union members and if there are do not know them, you work with us and just”, cut short a young man who returns to his duties immediately.

To explain the reasons of ‘anomaly Abruzzo, on the occasion of the first national strike anti-Ikea, the provincial secretary of the CGIL Filcams of Chieti, Sergio Aliprandi : “The selling point of Chieti was the last in order of openings in Italy , there is a rate of unionization to allow conflicts and uprisings since most employment contracts is dictated by the precarious and determinability of working hours, not counting temporary workers from temporary agencies and the non-application of the supplementary contract , which is one of the main reasons for the strike, which will have effective efficiency between different years, unfortunately. ”

When at the end of

in August 2012 he opened a store Ikea San Giovanni Teatino assumptions direct contract with the company were 206, 153 (74%), fixed-term, all of Abruzzo, others 53 indefinitely, of which none of Abruzzo.

Gabriella Di Lorito

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