Workers at the Marcianise plant of the multinational electronics company Jabil are preparing for tomorrow's "trip" to Rome, where a meeting will be held this morning at the Ministry of Made in Italy (Mimit) to discuss the dispute over Jabil's announced decision to lay off 190 employees at the Caserta site.
Tomorrow's could be the last institutional meeting before the February 28 deadline, the last day of redundancy payments after which the company will be free to start sending out layoff letters.
Since the beginning of the month, workers have been carrying out staggered strikes – every day for one hour per shift – but the situation has not been resolved, despite the fact that in February the redundancy fund had been extended precisely to find alternatives to layoffs.
Pessimism is filtering through among the workers at the Marcianise plant about any last-minute solutions; there is a near certainty that the terms of the CIG will expire on February 28th without anything happening.
“But hope is not dead yet,” says a worker; “hope” probably means other social safety nets for workers, which the Government will have to identify anyway, given that Jabil has already resorted to the ordinary and extraordinary CIG provided for by law.
No news instead on the reindustrialization projects that could involve the 190 workers that Jabil wants to fire; tomorrow at the Roman table there will also be the company Tme of Portico di Caserta and Invitalia, a company of the Mef, which together had intended to hire 140 workers from Jabil in the coming months.
Article published on 22 February 2023 - 16:35
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