ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Electrolux welcomed the request of the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, not to follow the unilateral actions announced and to start the Mimit a close confrontation with all the parties on the reorganization plan that previews beyond 1,700 esuberi. It emerged during the table chaired by Minister Urso, in the presence of the company, of the trade union organizations, of Confindustria, of the Regions and of the Municipal Centres of the group. Also present is the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, and the undersecretaries at Mimit Fausta Bergamotto and Mara Bizzotto. “I ask the company, to take the first step, not to follow the unilateral actions announced and to immediately open a real and tight confrontation to Mimit, with all parties and with a close schedule of meetings. The objective is to arrive as soon as possible to a new sustainable and shared industrial proposal, based on investments, innovation, the protection of plants and the safeguard of employment”, Urso said at the opening of the table. The trade union organizations in turn welcomed the Minister’s request to play its full role in identifying new alternative productive and employment solutions on the basis of the company’s original plan. “We are ready to do our part, as always, through ordinary tools and, if necessary, extraordinary. We have demonstrated this with Beko, in the ex Whirlpool dispute, and in the 40 industrial crises we have brought to solution, always safeguarding plants and occupation. He departed on the right path, together,” added the minister.
In the course of the debate, Urso also recalled the European dimension of the electrodomestic crisis, recalling having placed the theme to the last Competitive Council and having presented a non-paper to the member countries most involved in the production of the sector. The goal is to build a common front for the recognition of white as a European strategic sector, with a dedicated plan, tools to support productive investments and demand, reciprocity in the standards and full extension of CBAM to downstream products. “As Minister Urso points out, the opening of Electrolux today to work on alternative solutions is a first positive signal. It is particularly important that the company has taken note of the need to identify a shared path with the Government and the social partners, that MIMIT will accompany and coordinate to ensure the maximum protection of workers and the sustainability of the future of the plants concerned. Now it is necessary to continue the comparison with responsibility to translate this availability into tangible results,” said Bergamotto. The comparison will continue in the coming weeks to Mimit, with the aim of identifying shared solutions and ensuring industrial and employment prospects for all the sites involved.
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“Today there has finally been a discussion with Electrolux, which we are ready to face in the institutional field, as long as it serves to build a new industrial plan that avoids closures and dismissals.” This is what the confederal secretary of Uil, Vera Buonomo, the secretary general of Uilm, Davide Sperti, and the national secretary of Uilm, responsible for the household appliances sector, Gianluca Ficco, at the end of the meeting Electrolux, held today at the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. “The trade union struggles and institutional pressures have at least the risk of unilateral actions by Electrolux for the moment. This is a difficult debate, which we will face with responsibility and pragmatism, but also with the certainty that the problems of competitiveness of the household appliances sector cannot be discharged on workers, but rather must be the subject of system interventions at national and European level. The same multinational – the three secretaries have concluded – has explained that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the costs of energy and raw materials, in the distortions of European legislation and in the harsh Asian competition”.
“In the meeting that took place at the Mimit on the Electrolux dispute today Monday, June 15, in the presence of parliamentarians and representatives of region and municipalities, the Minister of Made in Italy, Urso, in the opening of the work, invited the company to work on a new industrial plan, alternative and shared with that presented on May 25, which is shared and sustainable in the long term.” Cisl and Fim Cisl comment on the meeting on Electrolux, attended by the Confederate Secretary, Giorgio Graziani and the secretariat of Fim Cisl, Ferdinando Uliano and Massimiliano Nobis. “The Minister Urso proposed to schedule meetings at ministerial level in the coming months to discuss a plan that safeguards employment and productive volumes. Electrolux welcomed Minister Urso’s proposal. For Cisl and Fim it is an important step that must serve to reject the 1,700 esuberi, the closure of the Cerreto d’Esi plant and the transfer of part of production abroad or to third parties. During the meetings we will have to start from the maintenance of productive volumes and occupational assets and then understand on which innovative and organizational levers the direction of ElectrolUx intends to develop efficiencies. The recovery of a negotiating table and the provision of the threat of industrial and occupational dismantling backed by the multinational presented to national coordination on 11 May and confirmed at the Ministerial office on 25 May, is the result of the immediate state of agitation carried out from 12 May in all plants with strike hours (on average 25 hours per site), the block of extraordinary flexibility and the involvement of local and regional institutions. The dossier opened by minister Urso in Europe is important to find the necessary conditions for the stabilization of the electro-domestic sector in the medium-long term,” says Cisl and Fim Cisl in the note at the end of the meeting.
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