(Finance) – This is not the time for controversy, it is the time for action. We ask for respect for the 311 workers of the former Whirlpool basin which, since May 31, 2019, have been struggling to maintain the industrial center in via Argine in Naples “.
Barbara Tibaldi, Fiom-Cgil national secretary and head of household appliances and Rosario Rappa, head of the Mezzogiorno for the national Fiom-Cgil, affirm this in a note, according to which “it is necessary to implement the provisions of the minutes signed on 4 Augustor last at the end of the meeting with the prefect of Naples, the Mise, Invitalia, the Municipality of Naples, the Campania Region and the trade unions “.” In that document – remember Tibaldi and Rappa – the prefect, thanks to whom the these months, important steps forward in the management of the dispute, he made known to us what had happened in the discussions with the Mise, with Ispra and Arpac, with respect to the findings on the viability, the obstacles already overcome and those still to be resolved, on which Whirlpool allegedly presented adequate documentation to allow the definitive assessment of the Mise, expected by 25 August. The prefect also told us that the day before the Adler top management would have guaranteed that, in the absence of further critical issues, the Consortium’s employment program would be exposed to the trade unions as soon as possible. Adler, therefore, was informed about everything “.” On 10 August – continued Tibaldi and Rappa – the company, through a note sent to the trade unions, spoke of a ‘situation of uncertainty’ that ‘will inevitably lead companies to move away from ‘initiative’, referring to unidentified ‘news in the press’. This note does not appear to have been sent to all the institutional subjects involved “.
“At this point we do not intend to feed further controversy – conclude Tibaldi and Rappa – but we ask that the timetable be respected which provides, for the first days of September, for the convening of trade unions by the institutional subjects that have made commitments, to acquire the progress made and overcome any critical issues, in order to reach an overall agreement that concretely launches the Consortium project for the reindustrialisation of the via Argine area. That is the headquarters, and not through company announcements, in which Adler must express all his points of view, in order to maintain correct trade union and institutional relations “.