About fifty workers spent "a quiet night" inside the Gkn plant in Campi Bisenzio (Florence). Employees, with the RSU and the unions, yesterday opened a permanent assembly inside the factory that produces drive shafts for cars after the news of the dismissal of all 422 employees.
"About fifty workers remained here - explains Andrea Brunetti of Fiom Cgil in Florence -, we spent a quiet night and woke up with more awareness than yesterday. The permanent assembly will go on indefinitely, in the next few hours we will decide what to do to starting from Monday when the plant was supposed to reopen after the weekend ".
Numerous, from the announcement of the layoffs, the demonstrations of closeness expressed to the workers of Gkn. "We feel the support of the citizens and the institutions. Last night we held a city assembly and the relay race of the metropolitan area unions began. Yesterday the driver of a bus stopped to greet us and support us, these are good things to morale ".
"I heard the mayor of Campi Bisenzio and my offices have contacted the trade unions, the Mise is taking steps to verify the conditions in which the episode took place, but these are modalities that cannot be accepted and on which we must find all the elements to avoid them ". This was stated by the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando commenting on the dismissal via email of the 422 employees of the Gkn of Campi Bisenzio. "I have never hidden my concerns in front of the release of layoffs, but this seems to me a question that has specific characteristics. We are facing a particular case".
In 2025 the production of light vehicles in Italy will not exceed 1 million, less than 6% in 2016. Also reporting this estimate in the letter to employees, Gkn announced the dismissal of 422 workers for the closure of the Campi Bisenzio (Florence) factory where you make drive shafts. According to the company, the automotive sector in Italy "already in 2020 was characterized by a negative trend that revealed great suffering" but with the pandemic the suffering has "amplified" leading to "a downward pressure on prices".
In the dismissal letter to all 422 employees of the Florence plant, Gkn indicates "a continuous decrease in prices of about 3% every year", which causes in Italy a "total imbalance between production cost and sales value". Also with this framework, the Gkn motivates the layoffs that will lead to the closure of the drive shaft factory in Campi Bisenzio (Florence). The company also explains that the strong pressure on the prices of new products translates into the need to "make reductions of up to about 10% from one product generation to the next".
"In addition to the layoffs of all Gkn employees, 335 workers, 67 clerks, 16 middle managers and four managers, there are the workers of Easy Group srl, Host food srl, companies involved in industrial activity and services, this is how we arrive to about 500 people deprived of their wages and jobs ". This is evidenced by the basic acronym Usb Firenze Lavoro Privato Industria regarding the "notice of the closure of the Campi Bisenzio plant with the dismissal procedure of 422 direct employees" which arrived via e-mail in a day of blocking of activities due to lack of components. A communication method in perfect harmony with the content of the letter, sent to the RSU and to the trade unions, which eliminates the use of any social safety net, because according to thecompany to protect the budget, there is no other way than throwing direct and indirect employees into the street "." The one signed by Landini, Sbarra and Bombardieri is in fact a mere acknowledgment of the freedom to dismiss given to the bosses, of which these are already making wide and unscrupulous use, other than a recommendation to use social safety nets, is a shameful lie that has liquefied in front of the gates of Gianetti Ruote and Gkn. It is no coincidence - underlines Usb - that both are linked to foreign funds: Gianetti Ruote to the German fund Quantum Capital Partners, based in the US, while Gkn is from the British fund Melrose, speculative mechanisms without specific industrial ambitions, ready to throw thousands of workers on the street in order to enhance their value on the stock exchange.We are at the beginning of a dramatic season in which the employers, Italian and foreign financial speculators, with the full support of the Government, intend to rewrite worse conditions of employment, wages, working hours, health and safety and trade union rights, using the tool of restructuring and layoffs ".
It is the mayor of Scandicci (Florence), Sandro Fallani, who opens today's relay of the first metropolitan citizens at the Gkn plant in Campi Bisenzio (Florence), announced yesterday after the news of the dismissal of all 422 employees by the property, an English fund. "Here - said Mayor Fallani - I see mature workers, shocked who have undergone an unexpected and unacceptable decision in forms and ways. We have an example of aggressive capitalism that sends 422 people home with an email after a year of pandemic. a situation that does not concern only this establishment and this territory, but touches a more general balance ". To protest the dismissal, the metropolitan mayors of the Florentine area have announced an indefinite relay race. "We mayors - continues Fallani - have decided to give a constant institutional presence, I'm here this morning, today there will be other colleagues because institutional pressure is almost as fundamental as trade union action. Certainly the Tuscany Region and the State can have a say in this matter, also because, the employees explained to me, the plant has taken public contributions over the years. It is not acceptable for an e-mail to arrive in Tuscany in 2021 that communicates, without sitting down at a discussion table, that there is no more work ".Certainly the Tuscany Region and the State can have a say in this matter, also because, the employees explained to me, the plant has taken public contributions over the years. It is not acceptable for an e-mail to arrive in Tuscany in 2021 that communicates, without sitting down at a discussion table, that there is no more work ".Certainly the Tuscany Region and the State can have a say in this matter, also because, the employees explained to me, the plant has taken public contributions over the years. It is not acceptable for an e-mail to arrive in Tuscany in 2021 that communicates, without sitting down at a discussion table, that there is no more work ".
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