With intense mobilization showing unusual unity in Italy, unions asked for the removal of the 2011-2014 industrial plan Fincantieri revealed on May 23rd. This plan provided for 2,551 job cuts – out of 8,500 –, the closure of the two sites of Sestri Ponente (Genoa) and Castellamare di Stabia (Naples), and the resizing of the site of Riva Trigoso (Genoa). Acknowledging the global crisis the naval industry is going through and the need for restructuring ensuring stable competitiveness to Italian sites, unions’ claims received major support from local governments as well as left-wing and right-wing political forces. Such compact pressure led Fincantieri’s managing director, Giuseppe Boni, to announced the removal of the plan at a meeting last Friday, June 3rd, at the Ministry of Economic Development, with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Defense, Labor, Infrastructure Research, the representatives of the VP of the European Commission, the confederal and sectoral unions of the CGIL, Cisl, Uil, UGL and Failms, or even Federmanager, Confindustria and Unimpresa.
announced the removal of the plan at a meeting last Friday, June 3rd, at the Ministry of Economic Development, with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Defense, Labor, Infrastructure Research, the representatives of the VP of the European Commission, the confederal and sectoral unions of the CGIL, Cisl, Uil, UGL and Failms, or even Federmanager, Confindustria and Unimpresa.
Commitments. Fincantieri promised to reopen talks with unions about industrial
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