Define joint actions between the economic and social parties to support the socio-economic development of the Metropolitan City of Napoli promoting interventions aimed at economic growth, the activation of investments, the defense and development of employment and legality; supporting shared initiatives aimed at safeguarding and/or expanding the entrepreneurial and productive assets and employment levels and the development of the Campania Special Economic Zone through the definition of tools capable of involving the economic and social parties, starting from constant monitoring of employment dynamics and investments made.
These are the objectives of the memorandum of understanding between the Industrial Union of Naples-Confindustria Naples and Cgil, Cisl and Uil Naples for the economic development of the metropolitan area of Naples, signed today at Palazzo Partanna by the president of the Neapolitan industrialists, Costanzo Jannotti Pecci and by the general secretaries of Cgil Cisl and Uil Naples, Nicola Ricci, Gianpiero Tipaldi and Giovanni Sgambati.
The Industrial Union and Cgil, Cisl and Uil Napoli “are not only asking for formal concertation venues, but – as stated in the document – they are demanding spaces for participation in programming decisions, contributing to defining economic and social development strategies.
The guiding instrument to ensure the necessary coordination of interventions aimed at the economic and social growth of the area - from Bagnoli and the Flegrean Area to East Naples and the Vesuvian Area, up to the Historic Center of Naples; from the Port System, to that of Transport, Logistics and Intermodality - is the new Strategic Territorial Plan of the Metropolitan City, to be launched in a reasonably short time with the contribution of the economic and social parties".
Businesses and unions are concerned about “the critical issues generated by the international scenario, the pandemic and the increase in the price of raw materials and energy, as well as the dangerous tensions and restrictions induced by the conflict in Ukraine” which “must be addressed, even at a local level, with strategies and interventions coordinated with social forces, in order to mitigate, as far as possible, the negative consequences and to define counteractions to safeguard the economic structure and employment levels”.
Starting from the "relaunch of an industrial policy, with measures such as structural decontribution for those who hire in the South and the creation of attractive conditions for new investments: infrastructure, credit, research and innovation, diffusion of the culture of legality and social cohesion starting from work, its regularity and security, promotion of a sustainable development model from an environmental, social, economic-financial perspective".
The PNRR and other available funding sources will make it possible to implement a policy to recover the infrastructure and service gap and industrial development. "The growth of Campania and Southern Italy is linked - say Unione Industriali and Cgil, Cisl and Uil Napoli - to a fair distribution of resources that ensures equal conditions in the provision of public services and that gives substance to the rights of citizenship protected by the Constitution, starting from the definition of Essential Levels of Performance (LEP) and Essential Levels of Assistance (LEA)".
To achieve this plan, "an institutional action aimed at promoting innovation and the allocation of research centers and business management centers in Naples and Campania is essential, a fundamental prerequisite for a structural and not episodic or fragmented presence of economic activity, with particular attention to manufacturing." Unions and businesses then ask for a governance that is able to optimize the use of available resources and a reform of the regional partnership table and the definitive take-off of the Special Economic Zones.
Article published on 26 July 2022 - 20:02
