Uilm: 'Whirlpool does not change its intention to close in Naples at the end of October'. For the Naples plant. The meeting "was interlocutory and disappointing, while concrete solutions are urgently needed to guarantee industrial continuity and work, since unfortunately Whirlpool has not changed its intention to close the Naples plant at the end of October".
Lor declared the general secretary of Uilm, Rocco Palombella, and the national secretary of Uilm responsible for the household appliances sector, Gianluca Ficco, at the end of the meeting with Whirlpool and the Ministry of Economic Development in videoconference. "Up to now the Government has not succeeded in either influencing the multinational or finding alternatives, thus showing a dangerous weakness, especially since the company decision violates an agreement signed at the institutional level in October 2018", they add, asking the executive to listen to "the union's proposals".
The Government, Palombella and Ficco insist, “has never accepted our suggestions to pass regulations that penalize the multinational if it persists in its plans to close and instead incentivize it if it changes them by deciding to relaunch the Naples site. And yet we had offered the example of what had been successfully done in 2015 to win the tough Electrolux dispute, but we were unheard. The only thing that has emerged is Invitalia's search for possible investors to convert the Naples site, with the intent to present a plan from among those currently under consideration by July 31”.
“We are also waiting for precise news – they conclude – on the prospects of all the other sites, since the company management has committed to illustrating the updates of the industrial plan after July 23. We hope that the signs of recovery of some plants will be confirmed, that the delocalization of clerical functions will stop and that our growing fears about the future of Carinaro, a warehouse located in the province of Caserta, will be dispelled”.
Article published on 2 July 2020 - 14:59
