The protest of the workers of the plant returns with the new year Jabil of Marcianise (CASERTA), engaged in a dispute with the company, which last September 23 announced 190 layoffs.
The employees blocked the roundabout located a few hundred meters from the plant for a few minutes, to say "no" to the layoffs and in an attempt to raise awareness in view of the January 31 deadline, when the redundancy fund will end and the US company, in the absence of alternative solutions, will be able to start sending the layoff letters to the 190 workers.
Alternative solutions could be represented by the relocation of Jabil workers to other production facilities, as has already happened in recent years, even though the reindustrializations, despite Jabil having paid tens of thousands of euros for each relocated employee, have never taken off. “Time is running out,” says Mauro Musella, an employee and Uilm delegate, “we are waiting for the Ministry of Economic Development to quickly call us to offer real solutions to the layoffs.”
"Safeguard clauses are needed to guarantee the feasibility of reindustrialization projects," says Francesco Percuoco, secretary of Fiom-Cgil of CASERTA, "because it is not possible that Jabil gives tens of thousands of euros to unload workers without them having a credible and concrete job opportunity." For the 190 that Jabil wants to fire, there is instead the hypothesis, still to be realized, of the transfer to a new company formed by the company Tme of Portico di CASERTA, created by a former Jabil, and Invitalia (a company of the Ministry of Economy),
Yesterday, during an online meeting with the Region, the new company was discussed, which however seems willing to rehire 140 workers from Jabil, not all 190. Since June 2019, around 250 employees have left Jabil, almost all of them relocated to companies like Softlab and Orefice, but with “little luck” the unions point out. The former Jabil employees who have moved to Softlab (around 230) work intermittently, a good part of them continue to be on redundancy pay, and often complain about delays in salaries. “We are waiting for two months’ salary and the thirteenth” says a former Jabil employee who has been in Softlab for a few years. The 23 former Jabil employees rehired by the Sardinian company Orefice were even fired after refusing to transfer to Sardinia, and are now without a job.
Two experiences that have increased the “distrust” of Jabil workers towards new hypotheses of relocation to other companies; also for this reason the unionists, faced with the hypothesis of relocation to the newco formed by Tme and Invitalia, forcefully ask for guarantees on the real work commitment of the rehired workers. Regardless of the “fears” of the employees, the fact remains that so far the regulatory procedure of comparison between the social and institutional parties started after the announcement of the 190 layoffs, has not produced concrete results, with the “specter” of layoffs approaching.
Article published on 10 January 2023 - 15:55
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