On the Electrolux dispute, which began in recent months with the announcement of 1,700 redundancies, the closure of several production lines and a plant, a new pause will be needed. However, as emerged at Mimit, during the meeting with the Minister of Business and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, the technical meetings of recent weeks between the company and trade unions have allowed for significant progress. Not enough to reach a shared solution to the dispute, but certainly useful for channeling it towards dialogue between the parties. After the meeting with the trade unions and institutions at Mimit, it was decided to resume negotiations in September, with a new series of technical meetings “on the individual aspects of the dispute”, to reach the plenary table in October. The first dates on the agenda are September 3 and 4.
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The last meeting served to clear some issues from the table that cannot be indicated as the origin of the multinational’s decision. Minister Urso explained that «the technical discussion held in recent days between the company and the trade unions has already clarified that the cost of energy, while deserving attention, has a limited impact and cannot be indicated as the determining cause of the crisis. Therefore, a true industrial project is needed, based on the safeguarding of plants, employment, and production volumes, but also on a concrete path of improving efficiency and competitiveness».
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Certainly, the Government is willing to «accompany this transition process towards a shared solution, as we have done in other cases, by deploying all available national instruments: from worker protection, through social safety nets, to supporting production volumes and investment incentives, such as Innovation Agreements». However, this government availability will only be there if a different plan is found at the ministerial table in September. «Every public intervention – Urso specified – must be part of a serious and verifiable plan, with clear commitments from the company and the trade unions, regarding production, employment, and the future of Italian plants. In this dispute too, the Government will do its part, provided that everyone fully assumes their responsibilities».
The Electrolux dispute is part of a context of deep crisis in the home appliance sector in Europe. In the last six years, as emerged yesterday at Mimit, 25 home appliance plants have already been closed in Europe. Therefore, «we must act immediately or we risk industrial collapse. For this reason, we promoted and presented a non-paper on the sector, which obtained the support of France, Germany, and Poland, to the attention of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné, to whom I had already urged timely intervention in the meetings I had with him in recent months», said Urso. The document proposes the recognition of the European home appliance industry as a strategic sector, a European plan dedicated to the sector, and instruments to support investments, demand, and production capacity. «I will illustrate the document at the next Competitiveness Council, scheduled in Brussels at the end of September, so that it becomes the basis of European discussion and the Union intervenes as soon as possible – said Urso – to protect production, investments, and employment, modifying a regulatory framework that today penalizes our businesses and favors Asian competition, often unfair».
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