A quiet autumn Friday, cold and sunny, less traffic than usual along the road, no queues at the turnstiles and the security staff at the entrance scanning the faces in absolute routine: this is the scene that could be seen this morning at eight in front of two symbolic companies of Bolognese mechanics: Ducati and GD-Coesia.
Intense organizational work
No alarm had been raised in recent days for the debut of the obligation of the Green pass in the Emilian manufacturing and the red territory, a fort of Fiom and a forge of trade union innovation, confirmed the expectations with an answer of absolute apparent normality. The result of intense organizational work in recent days both in the HR offices and in the production departments to reorganize shifts and prepare interim staff to replace the convinced no vaxes. Even among the most “revolutionary” workers, those of GD (founder of the multinational group leader in packaging machines, Coesia) where since 2017 the Usb has overtaken Fiom in trade union representation, the only discontent is linked to the insufficiency of tampons in the affiliated pharmacies.
Agreements with pharmacies
Because GD – like most of the large metalworking industries of the Via Emilia, from Ima to Bonfiglioli reducers, from Toyota to Ducati – has entered into agreements with pharmacies to offer free tampons to its workers who need a Green pass, avoiding Confindustria’s no to the idea that companies are responsible for the cost of rapid tampons for workers who did not want to get vaccinated,. “We are talking about about 8 thousand workers potentially interested in having a Covid tampon every 48 to be able to work”, explains the secretary of Fiom -Cgil of Bologna, Michele Bulgarelli, who together with the other engineering companies had asked in recent weeks that employers should bear the cost of the tampons as a safety expense, which according to the regulations cannot fall on employees. ” We did not find any emergencies in the 85 mechanical companies in the Bolognese area that we monitored in view of the obligation of the Green pass, let’s talk about about 25,500 employees ”, continues Michele Bulgarelli, numbers in hand: 18 companies (which employ 12,000 employees) have introduced forms of free swabs, in 19 companies training and information courses on the value of the vaccination campaign have been created or planned. While for the checks on the Green Pass, more than half of the companies have equipped themselves to carry out sweep checks on 100% of the employees, the others on a random basis.