The reshoring of high-end products from Poland will give a future to the workers at the Cerreto d’Esi site, in the Marche region, of the multinational company of extractor hoods Elica. As the company explains, they will be employed in the “Mergo plant which will become the hub of high-end products, characterized by high specialization and quality of the workforce”. In this way, the 400 redundancies that had been announced by the company in Cerreto d’Esi will also return. The agreement reached at the Ministry of Economic Development makes it possible to consider “the plan announced by the company last March, which envisaged the relocation of production abroad and the redundancy of about 400 workers,” explained Mise – . The agreement, reached between the company and the trade unions, provides for a new plan which, in addition to protecting the future of the plants, identifies a shared industrial relaunch path, to guarantee the saving of jobs through the launch of new products and the use of all the tools available to accompany, with incentives, some of the workers involved towards new relocation opportunities and early retirement ».
Great satisfaction was expressed by the unions who will bring the agreement to the workers’ assemblies in the coming days. “With the agreement – explain Gianluca Ficco, national secretary of Uilm, and Vincenzo Gentilucci, secretary of Uilm of Ancona – as part of a plan that will last 36 months, the Cerreto D’Esi factory will cease operations, but its employees will all be transferred to nearby Mergo. Furthermore, a reindustrialisation plan is envisaged on the site left by Elica, which we hope will offer employment opportunities to Elica workers who wish to take advantage of it, since an external relocation plan on a voluntary basis is envisaged ”. Massimiliano Nobis of the Fim, adds that “the agreement reached is positive not only for having saved 400 jobs, but also because it gives a signal to the country that reshoring paths are possible and that household appliances still find marginality in being produced in Italy. We hope that Mise will recover from this experience the intention to support other operations for the return of production to recover the production chains of Italian manufacturing ». In detail, Barbara Tibaldi, national secretary and head of Fiom in the household appliance sector and Silvia Spera, Industrial policy area of the national CGIL, say that the agreement “safeguards all jobs, the return of some products from Poland (reshoring), the use of social safety nets in the form of solidarity contracts in the quantity necessary to carry out the industrial plan without providing for layoffs and the provision of incentives up to 70 thousand euros for those who voluntarily decide to be put on the move ».