A lot of workers joined the national 8-hour strike organized on July 12 in Fabriano (Marche), where Indesit Company has its headquarters, against the group’s restructuring plan, which provides for two site closures and 1,425 job cuts (4,300 employees total). This conflict is an example of the structural crisis the electrical goods industry has been going through in Italy, with more and more restructurings and relocations cutting production in half in the past decade. (Ref. 130485)
“1,425 times no. We are history.” This slogan set the tone for the big national demonstration jointly organized by the Fim-Cisl, Fiom-Cgil and Uilm-Uil unions in Fabriano (Ancona), one of the small electrical goods capitals in Italy. On July 12, they rejected, with an 8-hour strike in Indesit’s undertakings, the 2013-16 restructuring plan they discovered on June 4. This plan notably provides for 1,425 ‘surplus’ job cuts, the closing of the Melano (Fabriano unit) and Teverola (Caserta) plant
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