Whirlpool Naples, layoffs start:

The first layoffs for the 320 workers at the Whirlpool site in Naples begin. The first letter today was delivered by hand by a bailiff and the others will follow within a week. The company, in fact, after the deadline of 29 October in which the court should have issued the sentence on the appeal presented by Fim Fiom and Uil for anti-union activities of the group, has started the operation announced about 2 years ago. The multinational has made it known that it will also keep the redemption incentive option open until November 30, equal to 85 thousand euros, for those workers who want to leave their job voluntarily or, alternatively, the possibility of keeping their job by moving to the province Varese to Cassinetta di Biandronno, Whirlpool’s largest site, about 836 kilometers further north. The unions arise who have long feared the epilogue of the dispute and who have organized an assembly of all the workers of the Naples plant for tomorrow. “Whirlpool’s arrogance has no limits”, declare in a joint note Barbara Tibaldi, Fiom-CGIL national secretary and Fiom household appliance manager, and Rosario Rappa, Fiom CGil Naples general secretary, accusing the multinational of contravening the commitments made. The dismissals, they say with one voice, “is yet another act of arrogance that comes just as we await the sentence of the Court of Naples. This demonstrates that Whirlpool, in addition to making waste paper of the trade union agreements signed with the government, does not it does not even respect the Italian judiciary “, they conclude. “A black page for Naples, Campania and the South” also for Antonio Spera’s Uglm. “Accomplice is the Government that has not been able to ensure that employment continuity for the workers of Whirlpool in Naples that it had promised on several occasions”, he concludes. And this is precisely the point that the unions claim: the continuity of employment promised by Giorgetti and Orlando during the last, excited meetings before the dismissal procedure initiated by Whirlpool ended with a lack of agreement. Meanwhile, Mise is trying to make ends meet in order to convene a new meeting in which the Development and Development ministers will participate. the Minister of Labor to take stock of the matter while the dialogue with the trade unions continues. Meanwhile, the Consortium of companies interested in taking over the Whirlpool site in Naples would continue to work on the Hub project on sustainable transport with which to reabsorb the entire workforce . On 15 December, according to Mise, the Consortium will present the industrial plan and on 15 June 2022, six months later, he will begin hiring manpower. For this reason, contacts also continue between the Consortium and the top management of the multinational, interested in the sale of assets. Summits that today would have explained the decision also to Confindustria.