No step back from the multinational Jabil, which confirms the cut of 230 employees by 2023 at the Marcianise plant.
While the situation of 23 former Jabil employees relocated to the Orefice Group company remains frozen, who did not accept the transfer to Sardinia arranged by the company and who remain without a salary. This is what emerged from the meetings between unions and employers held yesterday; the two closely linked disputes, which involve hundreds of workers in the Caserta area, are not showing any progress.
The secretary of Fiom-Cgil of Caserta Francesco Percuoco speaks of a “worrying situation”. At stake are “the future of Jabil and its relocation and reindustrialization projects, which are not working”.
On one side, Jabil, an electronics company that has laid off 220 workers in Marcianise over the last two years: yesterday, during a meeting at the headquarters of Confindustria Caserta, the company's top management confirmed the industrial plan presented in June to the Ministry for Economic Development, which focuses heavily on manufacturing related to green economy activities with a clear decrease in the future of traditional manufacturing related to the production of electronic boards, and which above all plans to reduce the current 480 workers to 250 within the next two years.
For the 230 redundant workers – Jabil executives reiterated – the relocation process remains the only tool. Jabil has identified Tme in Portico di Caserta as the company that should hire and relocate the employees who will be laid off.
The unions want guarantees, however, given what is happening to the companies that have relocated the 220 workers fired by Jabil in the last two years; companies like Orefice, which have taken tens of thousands of euros from Jabil for each relocated worker, committing to carry out productive activities in the Caserta area or in the surrounding areas.
For the 23 former Jabil Orefice, a company that produces generators, had thus rented a warehouse in the industrial area of Pascarola in Caivano, a few kilometers from Marcianise, in the last months of 2020, but a few weeks ago it decided to transfer the workers to Sardinia, and the warehouse was sold to another company. For now, the 23 former Jabil workers are waiting to understand how Orefice will move, which has received requests from the Mise to find a solution.
Article published on 15 October 2021 - 18:47
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