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May 26, 2020 The table on Jabil held in videoconference with the Minister of Labor Catalfo and the under-secretary Mise Todde, the company and the unions, jumped into the night, when everything seemed defined with the withdrawal of the 190 layoffs. The meeting started at 4 pm yesterday, after Sunday's deadlock, and lasted until midnight, with a suspension in the late afternoon to allow Jabil representatives to consult on the feasibility of some solutions, such as the request for another five weeks. layoffs and the simultaneous withdrawal of layoffs.

The cold shower arrived just before midnight. "At 11 pm - explains Antonio Accurso, Secretary General of Uilm Campania - the agreement was almost signed to withdraw the layoffs, badly at 11.50 pm, with a surprise blow, he declared he did not want to continue on this road". The table could resume this morning for one last attempt to ward off layoffs. According to Accurso, the company suddenly said no to "a shared path for the management of redundancies. The layoffs would have been withdrawn to resume a relocation path with close monitoring of the institutions".

Labor Minister Nunzia Catalfo and Undersecretary Todde, after Jabil's decision to stop the negotiation tonight "in a unilateral and unexpected way when the parties were now very close to the agreement", "have however expressed their willingness to speak directly with the Jabil's top management, to find out the reasons for this inexplicable turnaround and try to positively conclude the efforts made so far, safeguarding the employment continuity of 190 workers ". This is what sources of the Ministry of Labor say.

At the table, the Minister Catalfo, the sources explain, reiterated the radical nullity of the layoffs due not only to the failure to comply with the procedure for collective redundancies, but also due to the extraordinary measures launched by the Government to face the Coronavirus emergency.

The workers' anger: "The multinational does what it wants"
Amazement, frustration, and the usual anger that never passes since the beginning of the dispute last June: at the Jabil plant in Marcianise (Caserta), the employees laid off and those who place they kept him, they found themselves this morning at the gates with many questions, all in any case shocked by the company's decision to blow up the deal and confirm 190 layoffs. Anna, fired, with husband and two children, has no half measures: "It is disgusting - she says - a multinational does what it wants and nobody can do anything. Politics had to move first". During yesterday's table, it seemed that the agreement could be found on the extension of the layoff for another five weeks and the relocation of workers to other companies, but Jabil wanted the report to write that the relocation was mandatory; an official from the Ministry of Labor explained that this was illegitimate, and so everything was blown up. "Maybe the company never really wanted to deal," says another non-fired employee, "and in any case he proposed relocation without any guarantee for the fired workers, or without the coverage of article 18 and the reassurance that the worker kept similar salary and job even in the reality in which it was relocated ".

The regional secretary of Fiom-CGIL Massimiliano Guglielmo was very worried, above all because Jabil's behavior, "which did not take into account the state's pressures and the government's pressure", creates a "precedent" that can be reproduced also for the other hot dispute, that also geographically close to the Whirlpool in Naples. "We are facing a real industrial manslaughter" Guglielmi increases the dose; "Jabil - he continues - has been in the area for years, has acquired technologies, products and know-how from Siemens, Ericsson, Marconi; Jabil workers have supported these restructuring processes over the years, always making redundancy. The problem is not only for the 190, but also for the other 350 that remain. The territorial and national institutions give a concrete hand ". Mauro Musella, Uilm worker and delegate, says that" Jabil has thrown overboard all the efforts that workers and unions have done in these days. Jabil Italia can no longer provide any answer, everything will be decided in the States ". Another worker, also fired, looks further: "even if I had to challenge the dismissal, which they told us is illegitimate - he says - how will I survive, given that a fired employee who wields the act does not perceive unemployment?"