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October 20, 2021 In Naples, the Whirlpool workers' presidium promoted by Fim Fiom and Uilm in front of Palazzo Santa Lucia, seat of the Campania regional council.

A new mobilization of the union in the decisive hours of the dispute while, in the coming days, there will be various initiatives in support of the site in via Argine.



Tomorrow morning a delegation of trade unionists and workers will meet the new mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi at Palazzo San Giacomo. Friday 22 is scheduled another hearing of the court of Naples on the appeal presented by Fim Fiom and Uilm against the dismissals. On that occasion there will be a garrison of workers at the Palace of Justice. Monday 25 October new table at Mise, in view of which, as reported by the general secretary of the Fiom of Naples, Rosario Rappa, on the sidelines of today's demonstration, "the government has undertaken to make an extraordinary measure, should it be necessary , in order to ensure continuity of employment ".



"The workers - Rappa specified - either a consortium hires them or, with an extraordinary decree, Invitalia itself. And this means not having workers made redundant. The other parallel step is the illustration of the industrial plan of the consortium to verify if all the things we have been told, the workloads, the hiring of all 320 workers, the prospects for the research center and so on, are put on paper, "he added. "So - concluded Rappa - for us on the one hand there is employment continuity and on the other the guarantee on the future that the consortium must give us. If there are these two things, we think we have taken a significant step forward. we'll check on Monday. " 



"We are confident in the fact - said the Deputy Secretary General of Uilm Campania, Antonio Accurso - that the company has signed an agreement with us, the one we have been claiming for two years, which provided that sites could not be closed until the end of this mission. For this reason we consider the procedure illegitimate. The magistrate will have to decide on the papers but his decision also weighs on the outcome of all the work that the government is doing to be able to give a perspective to these workers ", he said again. "So - he concluded - we think that, in a legal reasoning, we need to take into account the weight and strength that workers must have in claiming compliance with the law".



Tomorrow the meeting with the mayor Manfredi


"Tomorrow we will meet the new mayor. It is another important step - said Biagio Trapani, general secretary of the Fim Cisl of Naples - because from the first moment this dispute was not only of the workers of Whirlpool, but a dispute married by the whole community and an entire city. The mayor must be aware of all the steps that have been made and we hope that he too will be linked to the future of these workers because losing a job in Naples is not like losing it in Milan , in Bologna or Bergamo. They are legality safeguards and we must defend them ", he said. "If Mayor Manfredi wants to follow up on what he announced during the election campaign - concluded Trapani - we believe he must fully embrace the values ​​of this dispute".



The meeting with the councilor for production activities


A delegation of Fim Fiom and Uilm and the Rsu of the plant in via Argine met the regional councilor for production activities Antonio Marchiello who, as reported by the union, took on the commitment of to build, in harmony with the meeting scheduled for tomorrow with Mayor Manfredi, an institutional front to support the dispute against the national government, which will be asked for guarantees on the reliability of the nascent consortium.

The Region also confirmed its commitment to training courses with respect to reconversion projects.