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Electrolux layoffs table updated as of June 15th. Government and unions: “We reject the plan.” The company: “Production in the EU is unsustainable.”
No steps back. The first table at the Ministry of Enterprises on the Electrolux crisis closed without any opening from the Swedish multinational regarding the layoff of the 1,719 redundancies announced on May 11. Minister Adolfo Urso decided to reschedule the meeting for June 15. From the government to unions and local authorities involved, the message delivered to the group was unanimous: that plan must be withdrawn and replaced with an alternative industrial proposal. However, the managers present at the meeting defended the need for restructuring, arguing that even if “Italy remains a strategic country,” producing appliances in Europe has become economically “unsustainable” due to stagnant demand, price pressure, and structural cost disadvantages. The risk is that within three weeks, a breakdown will occur.
At the table, the company presented figures that reflected the competitive difference compared to non-European countries: the cost of steel in Europe was 31% higher than in China and 27% higher than in Thailand, the hourly cost of labor in Western Europe was 37 euros compared to 12 in Eastern Europe, 9 in Turkey and 5 in Asia, and the price of energy reached 204 euros per megawatt-hour compared to 114 in Asia and 77 in Turkey. Consequently, according to the group, the reduction in the presence in Italy was necessary, with redundancies amounting to 40% of the 4,500 employees in the country. The cuts planned affect all factories: in Susegana, the workforce would fall from 728 to 418, with 310 redundancies, in Porcia from 571 to 309, with 262 jobs at risk, in Solaro from 615 to 398, with 217 redundancies, in Forlì from 683 to 345, with 338 layoffs. For the Cerreto d’Esi plant, in the Marche region, closure is instead planned with the exit of all 170 employees. In addition to the 1,719 redundancies announced – of which 994 were workers and 725 were staff – there are also over 200 temporary workers who, according to the unions, would not be confirmed.
“We are not negotiating with a gun to our heads,” said Fiom Cgil General Secretary Michele De Palma in a comment. “We said that it cannot happen that while we are waiting for the table on June 15 at 3 pm, the company proceeds with opening procedures or relocating activities. Everything must remain frozen.” Later, De Palma and National Secretary Barbara Tibaldi announced that Electrolux “has committed, until that date, not to take unilateral action.” Now, a “real dialogue” must be opened to safeguard employment and factories. “We will never accept a plan that would determine the end of appliances in our country. The state of agitation and mobilization of workers will continue until June 15.”
Similarly, Fim Cisl Leader Ferdinando Uliano stated that Electrolux’s decision is “political”: “They tried to explain it to us with technical reasons, but there is nothing technical that justifies the dismissal of 40% of the workforce, there is nothing technical in the closure of a factory.” For the unionist, the plan represents “an industrial dismantling based on purely financial logic.” The dispute “represents a moment of deep crisis for the appliance sector and for the entire Italian manufacturing sector, constituting a real national emergency,” emphasize Cisl and Fim Cisl.
For Usb “the Mimit cannot become the company’s wish fulfillment factory,” which asked for interventions on the cost of energy, on European regulations, on competitiveness, on productivity and on the organization of work. “If this is the method, then Usb also puts its proposal on the table: Electrolux should be nationalized and removed from a predatory managerial class that in recent years has replaced investments, development, research, product innovation and industrial policy with job cuts, disposals and perimeter reductions. The workers of this country are tired of paying for it all.”
Article Table on Layoffs Electrolux updated to June 15. Government and unions: “Withdraw the plan”. The company: “Producing in EU is unsustainable” comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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