(Finance) – Berco decided today to withdraw the collective dismissal procedure announced in recent days for 480 workers of the company owned by Thyssenkrupp. This is what union sources made known after the meeting at Mimit. The cancellation of supplementary company agreements has also been removed.
“Thanks to the workers’ struggle, the company has withdrawn the layoffs and the cancellation of the supplementary salary” the unions claim regarding the Berco dispute Fim-Cisl, Fiom-Cgil and Uilm-Uil. “The general strike of the metalworkers in the province of Ferrara last Monday, all the mobilizations put in place by Fim Fiom and Uilm and the legal appeals – continue the unions – made it possible to withdraw the unilateral initiatives by the company, starting from dismissal procedure” which affected 480 employees of the Copparo plant. In any case, the note reads, “given the seriousness of the economic and industrial situation, we will make ourselves available to the company to identify shared solutions. ensure a long-term perspective. To achieve this objective, the support of Mimit will be necessary and it will be necessary to verify the availability of useful tools for the relaunch of the company. We will ask the parent company Thyssenkrupp for the same support, which should provide adequate investments to increase competitiveness”.
Given that “the market context in which Berco operates is extremely competitive – underline the union acronyms – if we want to ensure the maintenance of jobs, we must not exclude imagining additional industrial routes to the current business. But this is a discussion that could only be addressed following a comparison of merit on an industrial level. In the next few days – conclude the unions – the comparison at company headquarters for the management of occasional and industrial aspects. The table has been reconvened for November 25th.”