A new, tenth, freezing downpour for the 185 workers of the former Gkn in Campi Bisenzio in the province of Florence. While waiting for the plant’s reindustrialization plan to be analyzed by government technicians, employees received the much-dreaded official notification: layoffs will begin for everyone starting next January 1.
Layoffs begin at Old Gkn
News confirmed in a joint note by Samuele Lodi, national secretary of Fiom-Cgil, and Stefano Angelini of Fiom-Cgil Florence and former Gkn-Qf RSU of Campi Bisenzio: “The layoffs turn the facility into an empty building, available for use by the real estate market – we read in the union statement – Maybe this was Borgomeo’s goal from the very beginning? It is time to clarify this whole operation, which has always been hidden behind the disabling state of the factory, while in reality the court fines and the hours of supervision partly demanded and partly paid by the company It shows the opposite”.
“The factory is not occupied – continues the note -. It is in permanent assembly but is absolutely usable. The only solutions on the table at the moment are the bottom-up reindustrialization project developed by the factory collective and the establishment of the GFF. Workers’ cooperative, where the popular shareholding campaign is ongoing. Other investments are to be determined.” “Time is needed. At this point, it becomes even more necessary to gather the Mimit crisis desk and withdraw the procedure.”
Technical chart at Mimit
A call came from the Ministry of Commerce and Made in Italy for the next 25 October: a meeting aimed at validating the industrial project prepared by the workers. The call from Rome came shortly after a press conference on Friday morning (October 20), where Fiom and the RSU once again demanded the protection of jobs: “We are ready to present our project, but this is due to the desire of the institutions to reactivate industrially, the reversal of layoffs.” “Withdrawal, willingness to invest resources in an industrial consortium and social safety nets to give time for this project to be completed. Only a crisis desk can decide all this, so the call on the 25th is a paradox.”
New industrial plan
The industrial plan that workers plan to submit to the Ministry of Commerce focuses entirely on the ecological transformation of the facility, which will produce photovoltaic panels and cargo bicycles. The plan developed by the factory collective to establish the GFF workers’ cooperative is also fueled by a popular shareholding campaign that has so far received 100 thousand euros in share subscriptions: the aim is to take over the Campi Bisenzio factory, or the government will rent or sell to the workers’ cooperative a complex of industrial apartments for companies that want to live there Will rent to buy. “We want the social safety net (such as RSU and Fiom) to be made available to the workers’ cooperative for the implementation of a plan that will bring positive tax revenues totaling around 50 million euros in 10 years.”
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