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 address the dispute over Jabil's announced decision to lay off 190 employees at the Caserta plant.
Tomorrow's meeting could be the last institutional meeting before the February 28th deadline, the last day of redundancy payments, after which the company will be free to begin sending out layoff letters.
Since the beginning of the month, workers have been staging staggered strikes—one hour per shift each day—but the situation hasn't resolved itself, despite the fact that the redundancy fund was extended in February precisely to find alternatives to layoffs.
Pessimism is filtering through among workers at the Marcianise plant about any last-minute solutions; there's a near certainty that the terms of the redundancy fund will expire on February 28th without anything happening.
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"And yet hope isn't dead yet," says one worker; "hope" likely means further social safety nets for workers, which the government will have to identify, given that Jabil has already resorted to the ordinary and extraordinary redundancy payments provided for by law.
There's no news, however, on the reindustrialization plans that could involve the 190 workers Jabil intends to lay off. However, tomorrow, the meeting in Rome will also include TME, a company based in Portico di Caserta, and Invitalia, a company controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which together planned to hire 140 workers from Jabil in the coming months.
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