The Jesi (Ancona) site of Caterpillar, the American multinational that produces cylinders for earth moving machinery, will close. This was announced by the director of the plant to the trade unions during one of the six-monthly meetings in Confindustria. “A bolt from the blue. He told us that on 2 December the Board of Directors decided to completely stop the activity of the Jesi site – explains Tiziano Beldomenico, Fiom Marche to ANSA -, which employs 260-270 workers, including temporary workers. At that point we did not ask for further clarification, but we left the table. Now let’s go talk to the workers ».
Tension outside the Caterpillar plant in Jesi, whose director has announced the decision of the Board to close the business. The workers went out on the square, giving rise to a spontaneous strike. The director, flanked by two bodyguards and a lawyer, took a megaphone to try to explain the company’s decisions, but was greeted by insults: “clown”, “what do you want to talk about, you make billions”. The representatives of Fim and Fiom pointed out to him that this way of communicating was unusual “since we are on strike”, underlining that communications are made in assemblies during working hours, paid. Eventually the manager, on the advice of the police who are guarding the area, drove away and someone tried to throw objects at the vehicle.