Friday, May 8, 2015

STEP 1-Whirlpool, table at Mise updated to May 12 – Reuters Italy


       

(Adds note Fim)


       

ROME, May 8 (Reuters) – will continue on May 12 at the Ministry of Development meetings on the business plan of Whirlpool that threatens more than 1,000 jobs and the ‘ existence of the plant in Caserta.


       

The report shows that the Uilm, compared to the two previous meetings, slightly more optimistic about the outcome of the dispute.


       

The company, according to the union’s general secretary Rocco Palombella, it would open the possibility of increasing production volumes compared to the plan, by retracting more foreign products than those already announced.


       

“Today showed a positive thing that the company is exploring the possibility of including additional production volumes in Italy,” said Palombella after the meeting, the third in 10 days.


       

“We hope that the 12 is an important meeting, he summoned the minister, we expect novelties”.


       

Whirlpool, US multinational’s white, has shown so far unavailable to modify the plan in the part that provides for the closure of the Carinaro (Caserta), which employs 800 people. The redundancies will total 1,350 but no unilateral dismissal will come before 2018.


       

Investment in research and development will amount to 500 million over four years and will be reported in Italy some foreign products.


       

The FIM says that for the company remain structural closure Carinaro and the site of Turin None (Turin), the main “problems to solve.” More …

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