Gray smoke from the Mise table on the dispute of the Whirlpool site in Naples. The Consortium of companies interested in taking over the plant in via Argine to make it a hub of sustainable mobility, in fact, confirmed the attention of some companies, there was talk of 7 companies, to take over the structure but profiled long times for the completion of the project. Although among the proposals put forward there is that of the production of seats for cars and buses and Invitalia is sharing a data room with companies whose name has not been mentioned, which have already carried out a “site inspection”, the times certainly, such as he explainedo the coordinator of the Consortium Riccardo Monti, will exceed the date of 15 October next, the day on which the collective dismissal procedure for the 340 workers of the Neapolitan site will expire. It will thus be impossible to guarantee the employment continuity invoked by Fim Fiom Uilm and Uglm.
“No agreement can be signed regarding the continuity of employment with Whirlpool for next October 15th“, explained Monti. To manage a game that is necessarily long and complicated, Mise is evaluating the possibility of put in place the safeguard fund “if a possible way of use is found”, and the possibility of resorting to social safety nets to ferry workers in the new reality. For its part, Whirlpool has confirmed that it intends to respect the date of next October 15 for the closure of the collective redundancy procedure even if for the multinational “the expiry of the procedure does not affect the discussion relating to the transfer of assets, which continues to go forward continuously and on a daily basis “. Indeed,” the two discussions, people and assets, are separate, “he later pointed out.
Unions baffled who asked the Government in unison to accelerate the confrontation and to put pressure on the American leaders of Whirlpool so that the group “uses the social safety nets without resorting to layoffs”. The Mise must also “dissolve the reserve on the direct involvement of Invitalia in the capital of any new entrepreneurial entity” and be able to enter into the merits of the project with the clarification of the private parties involved “. The premises on which the interest of companies is based, in fact, they say, “are in themselves acceptable but still not clear in their industrial and occupational development”. And the same representative of the consortium, still note the blue overalls of Fim Fiom and uil “was very explicit in declaring that the same is not a single company but a group of companies and that the time for its establishment takes a few months: for this reason the need for the continuity of working relationships to be guaranteed “.
Same requests that come from the Uglm. “We need to accelerate the confrontation between the consortium and the interested parties and the Government must guarantee the entry of Invitalia into the new company structure. For this reason, Whirlpool must not proceed with the dismissal on October 15 next”, explains Antonio Spera, general secretary of Uglm.