Stellantis workers are not alone.
The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, says this clearly in a video message at a meeting organized by the party in Pomigliano d'Arco, home to one of the factories at risk.
Rather, underlines the dem secretary, "the Government is the great absentee: but we are available to work together if it changes its attitude, for a greater good which is the future of the automotive sector".
A position shared by all the members of the Democratic Party who attended the meeting, parliamentarians and regional administrators and citizens, who recall that Pomigliano is a "symbolic place of the auto sector".
"You are not alone - said Schlein, addressing the workers - the prospects of the Pomigliano plant are not a local issue, but a national one and are part of the more complex picture of the future of a strategic sector such as the automotive sector for our country. The great absentee is the Meloni government, from which no reassurances, concrete commitments have been received, and nothing on the need to link incentives to the protection of employment levels and the reduction of emissions".
Schlein, as well as deputies Piero De Luca and Marco Sarracino, as well as senator Antonio Misiani, reiterated the need for the Government to summon the CEO of Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, to find out an industrial plan that guarantees the level of employment and the unions.
"The objective is to safeguard the Pomigliano site, which is strategic for the South and the entire country - said De Luca - any reduction or closure would produce incalculable dramatic social damage".
Senator Misiani does not accept "the blackmail of those who say 'either you give us incentives or we go elsewhere'", while the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, recalled that Pomigliano "is not just any place, but the city where the first cars made in Italy".
For Massimiliano Manfredi, regional councilor of the Democratic Party, "we don't need a defensive battle, but an offensive one".
"Pomigliano will not be the field of a political battle", stated the metropolitan secretary of the Naples Democratic Party, Giuseppe Annunziata.
Carlo Calenda also enters the case and addresses the secretary of the Democratic Party: "Well Elly Schlein, we ask together that Elkann, to whom the State has given a public guarantee, be heard by the parliamentary commissions. Do you agree?".
The Pomigliano plant, however, is currently the only one of the group in Italy that does not benefit from social safety nets, as recalled by the trade union representatives, who reiterated the need for an industrial plan that guarantees future employment.
"With incentives only the problem shifts," said Fiom regional secretary Mauro Cristiani.
"The slap given to the workers of Pomigliano by Tavares hurts", commented the regional secretary of Uilm Campania, Crescenzo Auriemma, while the secretary of the Fim of Naples, Biagio Trapani, said that "the plant could have a major crisis from 2026 , so targeted policies are needed."
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