This week started the course organized by Vitale Barberis Canonico to train employees for the spinning department. The difficulty for textile companies to find skilled labor has been known for some time, so much so that in recent days in the Biellese the employers’ associations and trade unions have signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the meeting between demand and supply of work because there is a shortage of candidates and those present often have inadequate preparation. From this difficulty, the Vbc, in collaboration with the Municipality of Valdilana and the Randstad Borgosesia agency, has created an opportunity for those in the area who are looking for work and are interested in the textile sector despite having no experience. The Municipality has made the premises available for the «recruiting day» and 14 were booked for the interviews. Ten of them, between 25 and 35 years of age, on Monday began, in the premises of the Pro loco di Trivero, thanks again to the availability of the municipal administration, the theoretical course on topics such as operational elements of spinning, rights and duties of workers, workplace safety. From next week, three months of internship will begin in the spinning mill, the department where we most need staff and where with these ten people we would be able to fill our needs, in view of the recruitment ». In the absence of trained people, therefore, the focus is more on professional growth in the field.
“Unfortunately, there is an entire generation of male and female workers who are absent because they were not trained in the textile sector – says D’Agostin -. In technical schools there has been a transition from hundreds of graduates to a few dozen and moreover with interest in the finished product and the brand and not in production that has lost appeal. Lost ground must be recovered; we did it at zero km in the country where we are present ». «We wanted to be alongside the Vitale Barberis Canonico company in the selection of personnel precisely to testify the importance of the project – explains the mayor of Valdilana Mario Carli -. Seeing so many young people respond to the call means that the alliance between public and private works “. In the past, the Municipality had already proposed job interviews at the building in collaboration with a temporary employment agency. With this passage we went further. The Carli administration is also always working alongside the textile companies to try to train the skills that are lacking in the sector. As part of the school plan, conceived by the Municipality, which provides for the transfer of the high school section to Valle Mosso, there is also the idea of inserting a high school course that offers a training course focusing precisely on textiles.