FERRARA – Seventy-seven employees of Regal Rexnord Tollok of Masi Torello (Ferrara) will be fired. And they found out via email. A PEC informed employees that the American company’s plant will close and that production will be moved to China and India. A cold shower.
The news arrived on 7 October and the unions are already in a state of agitation, with a strike proclaimed immediately and a permanent garrison that will move in front of the Confindustria headquarters tomorrow, Wednesday 9th.
“A decision that has thrown 77 families into desperation, a further impoverishment of our territory from a work point of view” they thunder Fiom Cgil, Fim Cisl and Uilm Uil. In the factory in the Ferrara area, joints also used for wind turbines are built. There had already been a meeting with the company last July regarding the drop in turnover and production. “Everything still seemed manageable, perhaps with social safety nets – say the trade unionists – but getting to layoffs was unthinkable”. Negotiations are now open for save jobs.
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Layoffs: “A cold shower”
“It was a cold shower,” he said Stefano Bondi of Fiom. And he added: “We reminded the company that in Emilia-Romagna the Employment Pact is in force, which in some way determines the fact that all social safety nets must be used before dismissal. Which was not done here “. The mayor of Masi Torello, Samuel Neriexpressed his and the entire administration’s closeness to the employees of the metalworking company. A country that has been hit hard, if we consider that the inhabitants are just over 2,200 and the production company of Regal Rexnord Tollok, which has now announced that it wants to leave, provides work to many families.
De Pascale: “Unacceptable”
The center-left candidate in Emilia-Romagna sides with the workers, Michele de Pascale: “It’s not done here.” The Masi Torello metalworking plant, recalls the dem, “has so far been productive and the social safety nets have never been activated by the company, we are therefore faced with a very serious situation, reprehensible both from the point of view of form, with the dismissal of the employees via email without any notice from evening to morning, both from the point of view of substance, since there is no logical explanation regarding this choice suddenly made by the parent company”.
In the region of the pact for work and the climate, “a model of social concertation of excellence and unique at a national level – underlines de Pascale – this is an even more unacceptable behavior. We are awaiting the meeting for the joint examination between the representative part of the company and the unions which will be held tomorrow. The workers must be respected in form and even more so in substance. The company must immediately revoke the procedure because what has been done is unacceptable”.
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