The August break did not improve the mood at the multinational's plant Jabil in Marcianise, which, according to the will announced by the US company's management last April, is expected to cease operations by March 2025, with the increasingly concrete spectre of unemployment for the 420 employees.
The dispute will have yet another institutional moment on Monday 2 September, when trade unionists from the metalworkers' unions and the company, represented by the vice-president of Jabil Europa Bruno Soler, will meet at the Ministry of Labour in Rome in the presence of officials from the ministry led by Marina Calderone and those from Mimit; there will be representatives from the Campania Region.
"We are now also awaiting," says worker and UILM union delegate Mauro Musella, "a contribution from the Campania Region, which has always expressed its full solidarity with the union at all previous discussions, but which must translate its support into concrete proposals."
For the September 2nd meeting, buses of workers will depart from Marcianise, as happens every time the dispute moves to Rome—a strike has been called for Monday—and will then hold a sit-in outside the ministerial offices, hoping for some positive response.
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At the last meeting held in the capital on July 22, Soler was asked to check with the US leadership about the possibility of reconsidering the decision to withdraw Jabil from Marcianise and Italy.
We then want to understand the real feasibility of the alternative solution proposed to the Jabil workers, that is, the transfer to Tme Assembly Engineering Srl, a new company established by Tme, a company from Portico di Caserta, and Invitalia, a company of the Mef (Ministry of Economy and Finance).
And in this regard, clarifications and precise guarantees are expected from Invitalia, because the fear of unions and workers, who have already rejected this solution, is that reindustrialization will not lead to any positive outcome, as happened in the recent past with Jabil workers convinced to move to companies such as Softlab and Orefice, which had also committed themselves at an institutional level to carry forward production projects that however never started or took off.
And while workers await news from the outside, the situation at the plant is unsettled. In recent weeks, the company has been involved in several measures targeting workers, harshly criticized by the unions. These include imposing holidays and, most recently, demanding workers work tomorrow, Saturday, August 31st, when Jabil usually doesn't work on Saturdays.
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