The story of the former Embraco di Riva di Chieri, a company that entered the Whirlpool galaxy, which at a certain point decided to stop production, and then went through a phantom reindustrialization, went in the worst possible way. Formally, at the Mise, the affair ended with a lack of agreement between the parties, company, trade union and ministry, and with a deadline, January 22, which marks the end of the employment relationship for the nearly 400 employees. What happens now?
The dismissal
The dismissal letters will start sometime while at the weekend a meeting between the legal representatives of the company and those workers who decide to accept the compensation of 7 thousand euros gross offered by the Group is scheduled at a site made available by the Municipality of Chieri . Insufficient resources, it goes without saying, to compensate for the dismissal and years of layoffs.
For the workers of the former Embraco, the prospect of Naspi opens up, with the unions talking about a failure for everyone. “We did not sign the agreement because, after four years of workers’ struggles, we refuse to endorse the layoffs” underlines Vito Benevento, organizational secretary of Uilm Torino.
The relocation rebus
The Piedmont Region, for its part, has undertaken to implement a certification and requalification plan for workers’ professional skills. These are measures linked to active employment policies, say the unions, which, however, have nothing to do with the industrial policies necessary for the relaunch of situations such as those of the component factory for Bianco di Riva di Chieri.
In the afternoon, however, a meeting was held with the Regional Labor Department to kick off the relocation table announced by the Giunta Cirio in recent days. «The crisis table remains – explains Ugo Bolognesi of Fiom of Turin – by deploying employment centers and Anpal, it must involve the social partners, businesses, local institutions and the Government. The ministry of economic development and the ministry of labor must ask for new tools for relocation, concrete tools to support income and re-employment at work. Embraco workers must not be left alone ».