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09 October 2019 'The company is available to resume the confrontation and is ready to consider the suspension of the sale of the company branch pursuant to art.47 until and no later than 31 October ", said the President of the Council Giuseppe According to reports, in the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the unions on the Whirlpool case: "It is necessary to create the premises for a solid and sustainable future for the Whirlpool in Naples, with particular attention to employment levels", said the President of the Council to the representatives of the trade unions.

Fiom, suspension is not enough
"We are not satisfied. The suspension of the sale procedure is not what it takes to reopen a table that calls into question the company's decision": this is how the general secretary of Fiom-CGIL, Francesca Re David, at the end of the meeting in Palazzo Chigi on Whirlpool comments on the letter with which the company says it is willing to suspend the procedure for the sale of the Naples plant until 31 October. "He cannot continue as if nothing had happened, he has not made progress", adds King David recalling the agreement signed in October last year at Mise. Therefore, he remarks, "suspension cannot be the concrete basis of a turning point. Minister Patuanelli will see the company and see if there are the conditions to reconvene the table".

Fim: situation does not change
With the suspension of the procedure for the declaration of the Whirlpool plant in Naples until 31 October "substantially the situation does not change. It has not moved one millimeter, not even in the times. It is a fumatan". Thus the general secretary of Fim-Cisl, Marco Bentivogli, at the end of the table at Palazzo Chigi, confirming the "unsatisfactory" assessment of the trade unions. Bentivogli informs that the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, "within 24 hours will meet the company for a comparison" and that "this afternoon we will hold assemblies on the Naples site and afterwards we will consider proceeding. We expected a few more steps forward" he adds.

Uilm: incorrect company
"An incorrect act against the government, the unions, the workers". This was the judgment of the Uilm secretary general Rocco Palombella who "resold the availability" to suspend the procedure for the sale of the Naples plant until October 31, "in the face of a procedure that would have ended at the end of the month". According to the union leader, it is necessary "to reopen the table but not going to find partners in the street"; the Neapolitan site "must continue to produce washing machines", as provided for in the agreement. Otherwise "this is the beginning of the end": "if there was a painless passage" in Naples, Palombella pointed out, the company would also have a free hand in the other establishments.

Ugl: company only tries to take time
"Whrilpool is just trying to take time": this is how Ugl metalworkers' general secretary, Antonio Spera, judges the company's move. "The suspension is positive - he declared at the end of the meeting at Palazzo Chigi - if it becomes final". He hoped he reiterated the need for the company to respect the agreements signed in 2015 and 2018. Whirlpool - he concluded - cannot disengage and take production abroad.