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All jobs lost after the release of layoffs – Angelo Mastrandrea

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July 14, 2021 2:34 pm

Thirteen kilometers and a single day separate the Henkel’s lay-offs in Lomazzo from those of Gianetti Ruote in Ceriano Laghetto. In this strip of the Brianza plain, the agreement between confederal unions and Confindustria to mitigate the impact of the release of layoffs, signed on the evening of 29 June 2021 at Palazzo Chigi, is as if it had never been signed. The German detergent multinational did not even wait for it to come into force: on 30 June 2021 it definitively closed the plant inaugurated in 1933, as it had already announced in February. From the day after, 81 employees were left out of work, 14 from the company that produced the plastic bottles, 15 between hauliers and warehouse workers, 21 porters, 13 employees of a small maintenance company, six electricians, three employees in the canteen service and another seven at the concierge.

For a few hours all of them will not end up in the statistics of the lost jobs after the unblocking of the layoffs, which began on 1 July. Instead, the 88 workers, the 15 logistics workers and the same number of maintenance workers, the two employees of the quality department and the 31 employees of Gianetti Ruote will end up there. At five in the afternoon on Friday 2 July, at the end of the last weekly work shift, the company sent him a brief email with the subject “closure of the plant”. The text was laconic: “All employees working at the Ceriano Laghetto plant are hereby informed that the plant will remain closed with effect from today. The collective dismissal procedure was initiated with a letter of the same date as this letter ”. The email also explained that the workers would be put on vacation immediately and on return on paid leave, “with an express exemption from returning to work”.

A prototype
The factory produced rims for Harley-Davidson motorcycles and for Volvo and Iveco trucks, it had changed ownership several times and then ended up in the hands of a German fund, Quantum capital partners. In an eight-page email sent to the unions, the owners explained that the company’s crisis is “structural”, covid-19 has worsened the situation and therefore “the business is no longer profitable”.

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The plant would have lost seven million euros a year over the past five years due to the rock-bottom prices imposed by competitors who have relocated to India and the Far East, and the rising costs of raw materials, starting with steel. The fact that Gianetti Ruote is also registered in Assolombarda, the association of industrialists led until May 2020 by the current president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, is not considered a good sign by the experts.

There is a fear among trade unionists that the methods of dismissal and the reasons could become a prototype to be followed for all the companies that have ended up in the hands of international investment funds that now, once the legal constraints have disappeared, will have no difficulty in deciding to divert elsewhere. their capital.

The government’s strategy of trying to dilute a crisis considered inevitable seems to be in crisis

To confirm the suspicions, on 9 July came the dismissal of the 422 employees of Gkn Driveline, an auto parts factory in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. The plant was built by Fiat and was bought in 2018 by the British investment fund Melrose. As at Gianetti Ruote, the workers were notified with a certified email after being placed on forced holidays for one day. Subsequently, the company announced its disposal due to “the situation of the automotive market and the contraction in volumes and demand that sector operators consider to be heading towards a generalized downward trend, with a structural and irreversible nature”.

“From the information we have gathered, it seems that the factory wants to relocate, despite the investments in machinery and automation of the Florentine plant”, Fim-Cisl informs us. The Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando has branded the method of dismissal as “unacceptable”, but this is a possibility foreseen by the jobs act wanted by the government of Matteo Renzi in 2016. The secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta explained that “if this is the bad thing, we need to review the rule that puts an end to the selective block on layoffs” and we need to understand “who are the employers “, Because” in the case of foreign funds, it becomes difficult to protect workers “.

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The unions have called for government intervention. “As the layoffs stopped, two large multinationals decided to close their factories overnight because they would like to go to produce elsewhere”, CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini told the workers of Ceriano Laghetto.

Optimism to be reviewed
After 493 days of blockade, surprise closures such as those of Gianetti Ruote and Gkn make any prediction difficult and undermine both the so-called “common notice” between trade unions and Confindustria and the strategy of the executive to try to govern with case-by-case agreements. case a crisis considered inevitable, avoiding a sequence of company closures and restructuring that could put the executive in serious difficulty in the middle of summer.

With the maintenance of the block in the textile, footwear and fashion sectors, and the thirteen weeks of free layoffs granted by the government to companies that have a crisis table open to the ministry of economic development, at Palazzo Chigi they hope that the crisis may be more contained.

The epicenter is in Lombardy where Carlo Bonomi, president of Confindustria, comes from

According to the estimates of the parliamentary budget office, at the end of the summer the layoffs could be between 30 thousand and 70 thousand, against the 300-400 thousand expected on the eve of the release and the half million hypothesized in the latest report by the Bank of Italy. “There is a very strong trend towards improvement that does not suggest a lack of demand for work, which is actually pulling”, commented in an optimistic way the president of INPS Pasquale Tridico. The European Commission has estimated a growth of 5 percent for 2021, “economic boom figures” according to the economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, which could help to at least partially reabsorb the jobs that will go up in smoke.

The first ten days after unlocking do not induce the same optimism. Further confirmation comes from the ministry of economic development, where 99 crisis tables are still open, with 55,817 jobs at stake. Despite the redundancy paid by the government, Abb – a Swedish multinational that produces electronic systems – has announced the closure of the factory in Marostica, near Vicenza. Production will be moved to Bulgaria and 60 workers will lose their jobs. Whirlpool has decided to start the collective dismissal procedure for 350 workers at the Naples plant.

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The epicenter of the labor crisis is in Lombardy, where Bonomi comes from, the main supporter of the reopening to market rules without constraints. In Segrate, a municipality on the eastern outskirts of Milan, the first fired after the covid-19 emergency was registered. Alessandro Cambarau, 51, an employee of the FLSmidth Maag Gear gearbox company had lost his sight due to a serious illness, but was sent home anyway: on the morning of July 1, a message was left on his phone by a automatic voice.

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On the same day, the first mass dismissal of the post-covid era was expected at the Milanese airport of Malpensa, that of the 1,350 employees of Air Italy, left on the ground by the health crisis and before that by a careless management. At the last minute, the workers were instead renewed for six months of layoffs. Even better went to the Teva di Bulciago, in the Lecco area, where the 109 employees obtained an extension of the social safety nets for one year, even if the Israeli pharmaceutical multinational has made it known that it will close not only the Lecco plant but also that of Nerviano , near Milan, which employs another 360 people. The challenge, in both cases, is to be able to find buyers who take over plants and employees before the social safety nets expire.

The most recent redundancies after the end of the block are located in Verrès, in the Aosta Valley. Shiloh, a factory of aluminum moldings for automobiles, has just been bought by Teksid, a company of the Stellantis group (the former Fiat). “We found ourselves at a crossroads, either closing with 70 layoffs or trying to keep production with a new group”, explained the secretary of Fiom-Cgil Valle d’Aosta Fabrizio Grazioli. As soon as they took office, the new owners sent twelve people home. Also in this case, it is a model that risks repeating itself and leaving thousands of people on the street, only in a less striking way.

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