Florence, 19 September 2020 – The workers are not there: for this reason they have decided to join forces and to save the Legnaia Agricultural Cooperative, col mechanism of workers buyout. 21 employees they have in fact decided to found the Cooperative Production Work Parco Dell’Oltregreve, supported by the service companies of Confcooperative, Cica Bologna and I join Toscana Link, for take over the historic cooperative company which brings together more than 500 farmer members, and offers products food, plants, seeds and agricultural tools in its three points sale of Florence, Borgo Sas Lorenzo and Scandicci.
And how much Confcooperative Toscana announces, recalling that Legnaia «is from time in compulsory liquidation: the auction procedure starts public with uncertain scenarios on maintaining openness e especially on the fate of dozens of employees ». “We started working on the project last January – declares the president of the new coop, Stefano Rossi -. Supported by Confcooperative Toscana we started the process of financing with Cooperation Finance and Enterprise, company financial company owned by the Ministry of Economic Development, and started a constructive dialogue with local institutions e with the trade unions. To those who tell us that we are crazy to invest there our Naspi in the cooperative and become entrepreneurs, we simply reply that we have a shared goal: regenerate Legnaia as protagonists, with an ambitious project which combines the enhancement of work and production local farms with a new social relevance of the center commercial of Legnaia ». The rescue of the Woodshed Cooperative is highlighted then, it could become a model for future crises years. «The workers buyout – says Claudia Fiaschi, president di Confcooperative Toscana – can transform business crises in opportunities for economic recovery through the instrument cooperative: it is a theme that we have brought to the attention of main candidates for the presidency of the Tuscany Region in meetings that we made in view of the appointment election tomorrow and Monday, so that he can enter to do part of the policies of the next regional administration “.
Maurizio Costanzo
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