The good news, for now, the suspension of the 422 dismissal procedure that four days ago the property of Gkn (the English hedge fund Melrose) had forcefully resubmitted. A decision arrived on the evening of December 3 at the end of thevideoconference meeting at Mise, convened by the Deputy Minister for Economic Development Alessandra Todde, during which Gkn said it was available tobridge hypothesis (the bridge acquisition) to the entrepreneur Francesco Borromeo, the advisor indicated by the owner who in the coming months will be interested in the sale of the Campi Bisenzio factory. Two subjects interested in the purchase to date (the items indicate two companies operating in the pharmaceutical sector) but other requests are not excluded.
EasyGroup layoffs
The bad news that, despite the promises of reindustrialisation which should also have affected the Gkn related business, the dismissals for the employees, about twenty in all, of EasyGroup took place, an associated company of the Florentine factory. The workers evaluated the Mise agreement with caution. To date, the point is that Gkn will not reopen the dismissal procedure for 14 days – comments the factory collective – and these are the days we have earned with the struggle. But unfortunately, the state takes no direct responsibility. It does not enter with capital to guarantee the transition. And the Government does not intervene either with a decree or with the law on relocations. But reassurances came from Deputy Minister Todde. Not only on the availability of Mise to sit at the negotiating table with all the parties involved but also to support the path with the social shock absorber more adequate by saying that she is convinced that the “bridge” proposal will serve to offer additional time to work with all the parties on a serious and credible proposal.
The trade unions
Trade unions cautious. There are glimmers, but we place two conditions – he said yesterday in Florence Roberto Benaglia, general secretary of Fim-Cisl -: that the entire occupational perimeter is included in this reindustrialisation and that the reindustrialisation is true and is not on paper as has happened too many times in Italy.