“From Monday you will be released from work.” The tobacco multinational fires 90 employees via WhatsApp

Logista, the multinational monopolist in the distribution of tobacco decides to close the Bologna site and warns all workers with a WhatsApp message sent on Saturday 31 July around 10 pm. «From Monday 2 August you will be released from work. Best regards”. The news was given by the Si Cobas union, recalling that there are 65 employees in the Logista warehouse, in addition to the direct clerical staff, the security guards, the cleaning staff. “About 90 people who in less than 36 hours discover they no longer have a job”. “Many of them are on vacation. None of them in these two years of pandemic had ever stopped to rest, because tobacco is known to be considered an essential activity. Even in the face of an outbreak, the multinational did not want to close a single day. And so while the workers are enjoying their rest, Logista Italia SpA carries on its restructuring plan and, taking advantage of a general crisis which it has not suffered, it fires everyone. “From tomorrow, the Logista workers will be in charge of the Bologna Interport. – Area 7