Expected for these first days of 2025, the collective dismissal procedure has formally started for all 413 employees of the Marcianise plant of the US multinational electronics company Jabil.
It was the company itself that announced the start of the process, required by law, which will lead to the dismissal of workers within 75 days, which expire on March 25; from that moment on, the Jabil will be able to start sending workers dismissal letters. In the note, Jabil's top management takes issue with workers and unions for not wanting to accept the alternative solution to dismissals proposed in recent months.
“Jabil has been looking for a sustainable solution for its operations in Italy for years,” the company says. “Recently, Jabil Marcianise has been working on a solution to preserve the plant, ensuring its economic sustainability and protecting the jobs of all employees.
For this reason, the company expresses its disappointment towards the unions and workers who voted against an agreement supported by the Government (through Invitalia) with Tme Engineering. This decision has complicated the situation, making it more difficult to find a viable solution for the Marcianise plant and its employees.
The current difficult global market conditions do not allow for further delays, making it necessary for Jabil to initiate the collective dismissal procedure today”. The initiation of the procedure is the latest act in a dispute that has dragged on more or less uninterruptedly for almost ten years, since 2015 when Jabil, after having acquired the Ericsson production site branch in San Marco Evangelista with over 300 workers and having reached almost a thousand employees in Marcianise, began to cut back, complaining of difficulties in finding orders.
And so, between incentivized exoduses, a massive use of redundancy payments and reindustrialization processes that involved other companies that Jabil also paid to hire its employees, including Softlab and Orefice Group, over 500 workers have left over the years.
However, the reindustrializations failed – the more than 200 who ended up in Softlab are still on redundancy, while the 23 rehired in Orefice were fired shortly after – and so we arrived in April 2024, when Jabil announced the cessation of activity in Marcianise and in Italy from March 2025. In recent months, the company and unions have met several times at the Ministry of Labor and at the Mimit, Jabil proposed another reindustrialization project to the workers, which was rejected;
the employees didn't even want the redundancy fund for the last six months and the company stiffened, forcing the workers to use up their holidays and permits. The workers asked Jabil to stay, the company never took this request into consideration. And today the only possible outcome is the one that no one, especially among workers and unions, would have wanted.
Article published on 10 January 2025 - 20:23
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It is truly a shame that the situation has come to this point, especially after years of trying to find solutions. The workers deserve more support and attention from the company and the unions to avoid these consequences.