The Electrolux dispute returns to where it began, at Mimit. For the unions, the new plan presented by the company is not feasible and “does not identify those structural interventions necessary to support the future and competitiveness of the Italian sites,” explains Massimiliano Nobis of Fim. According to Barbara Tibaldi of Fiom, “an operation is underway to drain the Italian plants by moving production to other areas of the world. However, this path seems more like a first step to sell or close, rather than to relaunch Italian production.”
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The new meeting at the ministry with Urso
The Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, said he wanted to “meet again with the five governors of the territories where the plants of this large home appliance multinational are located, to coordinate with them the position of the Italian institutions. It is my intention to convene the ministerial table for the first week of October, also to fully evaluate with them and with the company, with the unions, the measures we have requested from Europe and that will be on the agenda of the next Competitiveness Council to be held in Brussels on September 24. Europe has accepted our request to place on the agenda of that Council also our proposal, which has had the support of France, Germany, and Poland, that is, the other major European industrial countries, which asks that the home appliance sector be defined as strategic as the automotive sector.”
The failure of the technical tables
The reduction of redundancies from over 1,700 to 1,450 announced at the technical tables in early September, as well as the increase in production from the initial 2.5 million pieces to 3 million, do not guarantee sustainable employment perimeters for the unions, especially now that several production relocation projects are underway.
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Production relocations
The best-known production relocation concerns the Marche site of Cerreto d’Esi, which will cease activities at the end of the year: hood production will be moved to the twin plant in Poland, but, the unions complain, “no reindustrialization plan has yet been proposed,” Tibaldi points out.
Then there are the Susegana sites where refrigerators are produced: in this case, the multinational’s plans would also include transferring part of the production, the lower value-added one, to China, to third-party manufacturers. Porcia would lose part of the washer-dryer production, a product that the European market struggles to recognize and that is made less competitive by Italian production costs. Hence the choice to transfer part of the production to a twin site in Thailand. There would be no major news for Solaro except involvement in the productivity improvement plan.
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