Italy: Electrolux unions reassured by the recovery plans for the Scandicci site

On June 25, in Rome, trade unions examined the industrial plans of the two main companies interested in taking over the Scandicci plant (Florence), which Electrolux will close next year. They plan to keep almost all 450 employees, who have been fighting for months to keep their jobs. The fate of the 300 employees of the Susegana plant (Treviso), where the group will centralize its refrigerator production, is still dangling. (Ref. 080568)
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After months of doubt, it seems that some prospects are taking shape for the 450 people working at Electrolux’s Scandicci plant. The site should close in June 2009, following the Swedish group’s decision to reorganize its Italian activities by relocating medium- and low-quality refrigerators’ production in Eastern Europe and centralizing production in the Susegana plant (Treviso), where 300 jobs out of 1.400 will nonetheless be cut. Electrolux is the largest household appliances producer in Ita

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