Stop the layoffs Jabil“: these are the “slogans” that emerged from the procession of workers from the Marcianise plant of the US multinational, which arrived in the Piazza della Prefettura in Caserta where a delegation is meeting the president Giuseppe Castaldo.
"The electronics sector - says the general secretary of the Cgil of Caserta Sonia Oliviero - is not in crisis as Jabil says and as seems to emerge from the institutional tables, and it is absurd that 190 employees of a company like Jabil that produces columns for charging electric cars are being fired at a time when the focus is on ecological transition. The client Enel should increase the order, and the State should intercede so that this happens".
Crescenzo Auriemma, secretary of Uilm Campania, explains that "a few days ago the Municipality of Naples ordered 2 thousand electrical power plants, the order could be given to Jabil, this is how industrial policy is made in the territory". For Pietro Pettrone, general secretary of Uil of Caserta, "we will ask the prefect to block the layoffs. Jabil, as requested on behalf of the Government by the undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic Development Bergamotto, must ask for another month of redundancy payments to carefully evaluate alternative solutions to the layoffs; but these solutions must be discussed at tables to be held in the Prefecture".
Giovanni Letizia, general secretary of the Caserta Cisl, highlights that "the suspension of layoffs comes first, and then there is the issue of giving serious answers to a territory that has become an industrial desert. And in this I must say that the institutions are lacking, in particular the Region that lacks strategic vision".
Ciro Pistone, secretary of Uilm Caserta, believes that the "PNRR chapter should be examined in depth, to see if funds can be used for a project on the Marcianise site, but a plan from the institutions would be needed and first of all a freeze on layoffs". Also present at the demonstration was a delegation of workers from Rus (unitary trade union representation) Tfa, or Titagarh-Firema, a Caserta-based company that produces railway carriages and that a few years ago was saved from bankruptcy thanks to the acquisition of the Indian multinational Titagarh, and above all to the arrival of public orders from the Campania Region and relating to Eav trains; after that, other orders from the public arrived, such as the recent ones from Regine Lazio. "We are close to the Jabil workers because we know well what they know going through - says a Tfa delegate - having been through it ourselves.
As Firema we got out of it thanks to the help of the institutions, which gave us jobs allowing us to survive on the market. Let's do the same with Jabil".
Article published on 27 January 2023 - 13:50
