Giovanna’s scream had just been summed up in Mel’s Acc Wanbao: “Living in continuous anguish is torture”

The crisis in Valbelluna is putting a strain on the employees of the Mel factory which seems to have started at the end of its glorious activity

BORGO VALBELLUNA. “You cannot live in this torture, in the omnipresent doubt of losing your job and staying on the economic and moral pavement.”

These are some of the touching words that Giovanna Bogo, an employee of Acc Wanbao di Mel, wrote in her own hand in an open letter addressed to each political and government representative to express her anguish for the future. A desperate cry for help which, however, reveals all the dignity that comes from work and which is denied when it is the job that is missing or that is so sought after and longed for. A cry for help so that the stalemate in which the Zumellese factory has ended is released as soon as possible.

A heartfelt letter signed by a single worker but which interprets and sums up very well the state of mind of all Mel’s workers, who for months have been living in the anguish of not knowing what will happen to them. An anguish that is gnawing inside them and that no longer even leaves them the time to sleep.

What will become of the factory? So what about jobs? Will the establishment be saved? These are all questions that are still unanswered and that are throwing 315 employees into anguish.

Bogo is one of the “historic” employees of the ACC: on her shoulders there are 28 years in the former Zanussi, among various vicissitudes of which she still bears the marks today. She entered the factory around the nineties, was fired together with a hundred other colleagues by the Chinese of Wanbao in 2018. After three years practically in which finding another job was impossible, finally last January the call came once again from its “old factory”. A call that filled Giovanna with hope, who thought that her problems could thus end. But it was not so. On the contrary, the situation has slowly precipitated to its present condition; so much so that for Giovanna, a middle-aged worker, experiencing all this represents too great an obstacle to overcome.

And so here is the letter in which he expresses all his concerns about the situation that has arisen in the company where, in the face of large orders, there is talk of closure. «I am a worker from Italy Wanbao-Acc and I live“ suspended ”», writes Bogo, «like many other colleagues, workers and managers. I live suspended », the worker writes,« because I live in anguish; and like me many, too many others. There is more than one who is worse off than me ».

Giovanna highlights how this uncertainty becomes a torture for those who have to live with it. “I don’t know what the reason for this precariousness is, with the fear of a probable suppression. Whether to ascribe it to a management error, to a relocation abroad or to another cause that I do not know. What makes me special is that the company works well, and a lot, and the product is excellent. Why then this situation? »Asks the worker; who then underlines that «we are disappointed, embittered and above all fed up with the“ quintalate ”of words in the wind, the hypocrisy of not deciding, of the words which do not follow the facts».

And then, an example of a generation that has grown up, to paraphrase Franco Batiato recently passed away, “with a dogmatic respect for the institutions” he closes the letter almost apologizing for the inconvenience caused. “I know that you (addressed to individual politicians) will do something. If he can’t do it, never mind. But I know he will have tried. ‘