Italy: Indesit management and unions agree on national restructuring program

Indesit Company employees in Brembate (Bergamo) and Refrontolo (Treviso) are currently voting on the agreement signed on the night of December 7th between the Ministry of Economic Development, the group, and the Fiom-CGIL, Fim- Cisl, Uilm-Uil and UGL unions, in front of representatives from the Ministry of Labor, Lombardy and Veneto, the Provinces, and the Union of Industrialists of Bergamo and Treviso.  Indesit Company’s executive director, Marco Milani, recognized that the agreement “represents a substantial commitment” from the group “both from an industrial point of view for the choice of the place of Italy and in line with the group’s historical commitment to social responsibility.”  This agreement, which the Uilm’s national coordinator defined as an “extremely innovative and positive example in the management of industrial crises,” occurs six months after the negotiation on the Piano Italia, Indesit’s new industrial plan for the restructuring of its Italian activities.  This plan notably provides for the shutdown of the Brembate and Refrontolo sites (which were already subject to an exemplary restructuring in 2006, see our dispatch No.  080617), which employ a total of 510 people, to transfer the activities to the Castera and Fabriano sites from April 2011, as well as the investment of €120M over three years into innovation for products and processes, to make Italian establishment focus on production with a high level of technology.  Here are the key elements of the agreement.
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d Refrontolo sites (which were already subject to an exemplary restructuring in 2006, see our dispatch No. 080617), which employ a total of 510 people, to transfer the activities to the Castera and Fabriano sites from April 2011, as well as the investment of €120M over three years into innovation for products and processes, to make Italian establishment focus on production with a high level of technology. Here are the key elements of the agreement.

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