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18 June 2021 Dialogue tests on the case of the Whirlpool plant in Naples at Mise. The table will be held on Wednesday 23 June: the date, according to what is learned, was indicated by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development,

Alessandra Todde

, to the unions, who today demonstrate in front of the Mise against the layoffs and the closure of the Naples plant. 



"From the 23rd to the 30th we have that time to convince us Whirlpool not to open the procedures because from July 2nd the company can open the collective dismissal", says the Fiom secretary

Barbara Tibaldi,

speaking with the workers after the meeting at Mise with Todde.



The trade unionist adds that "Naples must be reopened, the government seems to come on the 23rd to present a proposal different from that of Whirlpool, but what is important is that one must not enter the collective dismissal procedure".



Finally, he warns, speaking of the multinational,

"if they do not change their mind about the layoffs, we are ready for general mobilization and to block everything". 

We do not want to submit to any kind of blackmail ", added Tibaldi.  



Today

Fim, Fiom and Uilm

they proclaimed 8 hours of strike in all 7 plants of the group. The workers are asking for interventions against the layoffs and closure of the Naples plant and for the future of Whirlpool Italia, with respect, also for the other sites, of the industrial plan signed in 2018 at that very site.



"The adhesion to the strike is very high. The gates in Varese are closed with 100% adhesion, in all the other plants it is 95%", said Tibaldi. This is "an issue that concerns all the workers of the group and their future. Saving Naples is saving Whirlpool. We will not allow the dispute to be forgotten. We need to invest in Italian industry and in the industry that brings jobs to Italy", he added. . 



The square also observed a minute of silence for the worker who died this morning hit by a truck, during a demonstration, in front of the gates of the Lidl in Biandrate (Novara).