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23 September 2021 Two hundred Whirlpool workers are back in Rome. As established at the end of the table last week, at the Ministry of Economic Development there is a new meeting on the dispute of the Neapolitan site of the multinational of household appliances. The unions want immediate answers from the government "three years after the start of the dispute". The story concerns 340 employees of the Neapolitan site. Invitalia and Deputy Minister Alessandra Todde also participate in the summit.

"For us, compared to the current conditions of Whirlpool, in particular of washing machines, the fastest solution and the one we favor is the resumption of production in Naples of high-end washing machines", but at the table "we confront ourselves without prejudice to industrial reconversions that provide for the same economic and regulatory conditions for workers and an industrial project that guarantees an industrial and employment future ". This was stated by Rosario Rappa, general secretary of Fiom Napoli.

"At the moment there are four million washing machines to be produced for the Emea market - explains Rappa - after the cessation and sale of the Chinese and Turkish plants, Whirlpool is preparing to decide where to put these productions. It would be enough to move 800-900 thousand pieces of these 4 million on Naples - proposes Rappa - to put efficiency in the plant, this is the way we prefer ". Also today, adds the general secretary Fiom Napoli, a consortium on sustainable mobility will be presented. "As already said to Minister Giorgetti, for us it will be a confrontation without prejudice. They must be known entrepreneurs - concludes Rappa - able to guarantee employment now and in the future, and who maintain the current economic and regulatory conditions of workers".  

"There is no more time to waste".

The national secretary Fim Cisl Massimiliano Nobis underlines this, adding: "It is time for answers. Answers that must arrive from the Mise on the sustainable mobility plan and from Whirlpool on a commitment of responsibility to support and accompany projects of the Ministry".

This is why "we expect the presence of Minister Giorgetti. We are three years after the start of this dispute, we cannot continue to make fun of the workers and a territory is now looking for solutions to give work and a future to the 340 employees of the site. of Naples and to demonstrate that the entire country system is capable of finding industrial solutions to industrial crises and not welfare loopholes ".