Jabil dispute, the bishop writes to Urso: “Minister save Marcianise”

Marcianise – “Dear Minister, exactly two years later, I feel the pastoral duty to turn to you again and, always with a humble and respectful spirit, to bother you to ask for help, not for us, but for our people: the workers of Jabil in Marcianise.

Workers who, once again, risk losing everything and being left without hope”. This is how the letter that the Bishop of Caserta and Archbishop of Capua Pietro Lagnese sends to the head of the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy (Mimit) Adolfo Urso begins.

In the letter, the prelate requests, "in the Jubilee Year dedicated to Hope", a decisive intervention in the Jabil dispute , now in its final stages, given that in March the US multinational electronics company has decided to cease operations and leave Marcianise and Italy.

The company has also started the procedure required by law for the collective dismissal of the 413 workers of the Caserta production site, which will end on March 25; from that moment, in the absence of alternative solutions, the dismissal letters will be sent.

Lagnese has intervened several times in recent years in support of the Jabil workers, and a few days ago he went to the Marcianise plant to express concrete closeness and solidarity to the workers, promising them to take a ride to Urso, to whom he had already sent an appeal letter two years ago (it was also addressed to the Caserta parliamentarians).

In today's letter, Lagnese, addressing the minister, explains that he knows the "passion and commitment he puts into prioritizing the protection of jobs when large companies enter into crisis. He is certainly well aware of the Jabil dispute in Marcianise and, like me, the evolution of this corporate crisis that has lasted for years, since the American multinational electronics company began to give negative signals on the sustainability of its Italian sites.

Jabil's management in Italy points the finger at workers and unions who would not have accepted the alternative solution to layoffs proposed in recent months". "If Jabil really goes away, Mr. Minister - adds the high prelate - it will be an immoral defeat for the territory, a defeat for politics, in a land where, until a few years ago, there were Olivetti, Siemens, Alcatel and all the related industries that accompanied these large companies.

Dear Minister, I therefore ask you, with all my heart, to give new hope to Caserta and the South by opening a new table at the Ministry, also verifying the possibility that the company can be managed by an employee cooperative or by a more solid company, which can take over the management, as in the case of Whirlpool in Naples. You are the only one who can take charge of it” concludes Bishop Lagnese.