Gkn, Mayor Campi signs an ordinance to ban approach to avoid dismantling

An ordinance, with immediate effect, introducing the prohibition for heavy vehicles to approach the company perimeter of the Gkn plant. This is what the mayor of Campo Bisenzio (Florence), Emiliano Fossi, will sign in the next few hours, confirming what was published today by Repubblica. "I want to give a clear administrative and political signal that we do not accept the dismantling of the plant by the owners," explains Fossi. "We are examining all the possibilities to recall the company, which behaved so cowardly, to its responsibilities - he continues - but the game is not played on the pitch of the municipality, it is a national affair, Mise must move and the Presidency of the Council ". Meanwhile, inside the factory, Fossi confirms, thepermanent workers' meeting started Friday evening after the announcement of 422 layoffs. "There is a constant supervision of the employees - explains Fossi - who are carrying out their legitimate battle in a dignified and correct way. There is a continuous flow of citizens, who bring food and drinks to the workers, but also of institutional representatives. Attention is strong ". On the Gkn "this week the Deputy Minister Todde confirmed to me that there will be a table with the institutions in which the Metropolitan City of Florence will also participate. We are alongside the Region and the Government to share joint actions, also a strong pressure on the industrial group to referred to by Fiat, the main customer of Gkn.We will also work on the diplomatic relations front because good relations between countries are at stake, it is not acceptable that this English group can behave like this with a friendly country, I consider it a hostile act against Italy ". Thus the mayor of Florence and the City underground Dario Nardella speaking at Controradio. "There is also an aspect of legislation on which we must intervene - added Nardella -. I talked about it yesterday with Deputy Minister Alessandra Todde. There are probably aspects of Italian legislation that can be strengthened, to provide for harsher penalties against industrial groups that relocate without sufficient reasons. We also need to verify what and how much public aid / support / contributions the Gkn has had, in order to take even very tough actions against this group ".For Nardella, explains a note, there is also a European theme: "You cannot live in a united Europe where, for reasons of tax and wage dumping, you are relocating from one country to another - he underlined -. fiscal union ". "Second case of workers laid off informally. The government should do fewer press releases and more discussion tables. Before everyone was excited when it was necessary to lift the redundancy block, today they are all excited to say: wow, this is barbarism! a company that decides to fire without accessing the social safety nets makes an act of violence. It is an intentional murder, they built it before. We cannot be at the mercenary mercy, if the situation does not change it is clear that we risk a real fight ". So Michele De Palma,national secretary of Fiom CGIL, to the microphones of the program “L'Italia s'è desta”, conducted by the director Gianluca Fabi, Matteo Torrioli and Daniel Moretti on Radio Cusano Campus. On the dismissals via e-mail of the 422 workers of the Gkn of Campi Bisenzio (Florence) De Palma underlines: "We are in the second case of an informal communication as already happened at Gianetti, they are both companies owned by a fund located in multinational". "This must make us reflect on the complete devaluation of the role of people in companies, people are used as commodities, when they are no longer needed they are put aside. What is impressive is that they fire them to make other types of choices that guarantee greater profits to those who invests in those companies.There is a clear desire to send people home because someone thinks of relocating to have greater profitability. One can also compare oneself if the product has a lower margin than the company's expectations, one compares and finds solutions, but here we are facing unilateralism on the part of the company ". 

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12 July 2021 An ordinance, with immediate effect, introducing the prohibition for heavy vehicles to approach the company perimeter of the Gkn plant. This is what the mayor of Campo Bisenzio (Florence), Emiliano Fossi, will sign in the next few hours, confirming what was published today by Repubblica. "I want to give a clear administrative and political signal that we do not accept the dismantling of the plant by the owners," explains Fossi. "We are examining all the possibilities to recall the company, which behaved so cowardly, to its responsibilities - he continues - but the game is not played on the pitch of the municipality, it is a national affair, Mise must move and the Presidency of the Council ".

Meanwhile, inside the factory, Fossi confirms, the permanent assembly of workers is continuing, which began on Friday evening after the announcement of 422 layoffs. "There is a constant supervision of the employees - explains Fossi - who are carrying out their legitimate battle in a dignified and correct way. There is a continuous flow of citizens, who bring food and drinks to the workers, but also of institutional representatives. Attention is strong ".

On the Gkn "this week the Deputy Minister Todde confirmed to me that there will be a table with the institutions in which the Metropolitan City of Florence will also participate. We are alongside the Region and the Government to share joint actions, also a strong pressure on the industrial group to to which Fiat, the main customer of the GKN, refers. We will also work on the diplomatic relations front because good relations between countries are at stake, it is not acceptable that this British group can behave like this with a friendly country, I consider it a hostile act against Italy". Thus the mayor of Florence and the metropolitan city Dario Nardella speaking at Controradio. "There is also an aspect of legislation on which we must intervene - added Nardella -. I spoke about it yesterday with Deputy Minister Alessandra Todde.There are probably aspects of Italian legislation that can be strengthened, to provide for harsher penalties against industrial groups that relocate without sufficient reasons. We also need to check which and how many public aid / support / contributions the Gkn has had, in order to take even very tough actions against this group. "For Nardella, explains a note, there is also a European theme:" You cannot live in a 'United Europe where, for reasons of tax and wage dumping, it relocates from one country to another - he stressed -. We need a fiscal union ".We must also check which and how many public aid / support / contributions the Gkn has had, to take even very tough actions against this group. "For Nardella, explains a note, there is also a European theme:" You cannot live in a 'United Europe where, for reasons of tax and wage dumping, it relocates from one country to another - he stressed -. We need a fiscal union ".We also need to check which and how many public aid / support / contributions the Gkn has had, in order to take even very tough actions against this group. "For Nardella, explains a note, there is also a European theme:" You cannot live in a 'United Europe where, for reasons of tax and wage dumping, it relocates from one country to another - he stressed -. We need a fiscal union ".

"Second case of workers laid off informally. The government should do fewer press releases and more discussion tables. Before everyone was excited when it was necessary to lift the redundancy block, today they are all excited to say: wow, this is barbarism! a company that decides to fire without accessing the social safety nets makes an act of violence. It is an intentional murder, they built it before. We cannot be at the mercenary mercy, if the situation does not change it is clear that we risk a real fight ".

Thus Michele De Palma, national secretary of Fiom Cgil, to the microphones of the program “Italy has awakened”, conducted by the director Gianluca Fabi, Matteo Torrioli and Daniel Moretti on Radio Cusano Campus.

On the dismissals via e-mail of the 422 workers of the Gkn of Campi Bisenzio (Florence) De Palma underlines: "We are in the second case of an informal communication as already happened at Gianetti, they are both companies owned by a fund located in a multinational".

"This must make us reflect on the complete devaluation of the role of people in companies, people are used as commodities, when they are no longer needed they are put aside. What is impressive is that they fire them to make other types of choices that guarantee greater profits to those who invests in those companies. There is a clear desire to send people home because someone thinks of relocating to have greater profitability. One can also compare oneself if the product has a lower margin than expected by the company, one compares and finds solutions, but here we are facing unilateralism on the part of the company ".

Gkn, Mayor Campi signs an ordinance to ban approach to avoid dismantling

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