The development plans on new lines started in pre-Covid have been completed, but specialized workers are needed to stabilize
IVREA. Like IT experts for ICT, skilled workers are the other most sought-after professional figure in the Canavese area. They are lacking to the extent that the Metalworker at the foot of the Serra – automotive and earthmoving, hot stamping (a thousand companies also considering the Ciriacese for a total of 15 thousand employees) – needs workers to be placed on the new production lines. A Canavese that has nothing to envy to its German competitors, say the unions, capable of transforming components for tractors all over the world. For Audi, Volkswagen. Very few redundancy requests, mostly prudential given the impossibility of planning over the medium-long term, in the face of a now consolidated need to extend work shifts to Saturdays and remain closed for holidays for only two weeks, the minimum wage . Forno, Rivara, Ivrea, Busano, Castellamonte, Strambino: the leading realities have completed the investments started before Covid and are now looking for people. In particular programmers, forgers, numerical control machine operators, printers, maintenance technicians, toolmakers, employees specialized in robotics. Not to mention that the green world is now a reality to be reckoned with. «For many years – observes Fabrizio Bellino, provincial secretary Fiom Cgil Torino and responsible for the Canavese area – the companies have fished from the mobility lists, the Anaspi. Lists that are now out of stock. So at this moment they are hiring indefinitely. The Canavese area has a great base of culture of the territory, here families want to learn a trade, there is a pride in their role and in belonging to the company, the desire to prove that one is good ». The hardest blow here came when the Fiat era ended. «At the time, 100% of the companies in the area worked for Fiat – adds Bellino -. We have already experienced the blow others are taking elsewhere. From what moment the sector was divided into a myriad of companies, from 6 to 50 employees, managing to develop a remarkable know-how that today makes us strong on the components, and on the car front, and on that of earth moving ». So all roses and flowers? “At all. We have a problem of individual layoffs, fortunately in the minority, in smaller companies that operate on poorer processes, such as cabling. Where can it happen that speculations are made about less flexible workers ». We are looking forward to autumn, with the 13-week extension of the redundancy fund granted to companies excluded from the redundancy block, which in turn expires on 31 October, expiring in mid-October. «On average, the situation is positive – intervenes Alberto Mancino, Uilm territorial secretary -. The unknowns remain linked to the impossibility of having a vision on the medium-long distance and on how much the electric will impact on the traditional automotive. In this sense, the Gigactory settlement in Scarmagno, if it went to port as I hope, would open scenimportant to engage the process “.