Battipaglia, Cooper Commonplace “cuts” 50 employees

They’re the “better of youth”. Within the headquarters of the Cooper Commonplace they think about them the way forward for the corporate. But it is actually them, i 50 staff together with short-term (14) and leasing employees (36)having to lose their job, in keeping with communications that Pietro Mancusochargeable for the mammoth Battipaglia plant, spoke on behalf of the corporate to the provincial union secretaries and to the members of the RSU in the course of the two conferences (one with the triple staff, the opposite with the self-employed employees of the Confail) which befell final Monday within the Salerno headquarters of Confindustriachaired by the contact individual Agostino Della Valle.

The goal

The discount of fifty working models by the tip of July: that is the target set by the Cooper Commonplace to stem the «sharp decline in orders» for the Battipaglia plant, «with decreases reaching in some circumstances 40 p.c». But the “particulars”, the fashions of gaskets for the autos of the Stellantis group manufactured by the employees of Sele Plainthey’re all the time the identical: Jeep Compass, Alpha Tonal and Stelvio, Fiat Panda e Duchy and the like. The portions to be produced, nonetheless, have been considerably decreased, most likely as a result of lots of the Stellantis group’s autos don’t promote as anticipated.

The desert”

After which into the desert the place the productive lung of Battipagliaadditionally affected by Fos dispute, the “head cutters” arrive once more. Fifty heads lower than the 400 employed by Cooper: they’re these of the 14 short-term employees, whose fixed-term contracts is not going to be renewed between now and the tip of July. After which there they’re 36 guys on leasing employees: they’re employed on a everlasting foundation, however by exterior businesses. The eldest has ten years of Cooper service, the youngest two. They threat being fired.

Productiveness

But they symbolize the way forward for the corporate: the productiveness percentages of short-term employees on the lookout for a Cooper contract are among the many highest. The intention to ship them away, due to this fact, additionally scares the direct staff of the plant, anxious on the thought that giving up the “finest youth” would imply steadily jeopardizing the existence of the most important (by way of personnel employed) of the Battipaglia factories.