(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 22 - Whirlpool workers still in the square, this time in Rome, to protest against the closure of the Naples plant, at the same time as the eight-hour strike proclaimed for all the plants of the group.
Membership, Fiom announces on its Facebook profile, was 100%. About 200 workers moved from the Termini station to Mise, where the deputy ministers of economic development Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and Alessandra Toddestanno receiving a delegation from Fim, Fiom and Uilm to discuss the dispute. "We are working on a serious and concrete industrial plan that not only secures the workers but guarantees a future for the production site in Naples by safeguarding employment," said Deputy Minister Todde, according to what she learns. "We ask that" in Naples "the Whirlpool is not closed, rather relaunched.
"It is news this morning, given by the company, that at world level including Italy, Whirlpool registers a 20% increase in profits. It seems difficult to count it among the companies affected", said the general secretary of Fiom, Francesca Re David . Of the same opinion the national secretary Uilm and head of the household appliance sector, GianlucaFicco: "We ask the government to take measures, which are able to help even in the cases of many other multinationals that show the same arrogance". According to the secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, the government must put "every tool in place to save the jobs and the destiny of hundreds of families who deserve more respect". (HANDLE).