Leonardo, this is how the unions are divided on the strike in Grottaglie
On Monday, October 25th, strike and garrison of workers in the Leonardo di Grottaglie plant, where the fuselages of the Boeing 787 are produced. Fim dissociates itself from Fiom and Uilm
We go back to work but it is already closed at Leonardo's site in Grottaglie.
Yesterday the employees of the former Finmeccanica aeronautical plant in Taranto went on strike "on all shifts at the end of the assemblies at the end of the work shift".
In the Leonardo factory in Grottaglie (with 1300 direct employees), work was resumed on 20 October.
It was suspended since before August following the collective closure plan that affected the site, which belongs to Leonardo's Aerostructures division and builds two sections of the carbon fiber fuselage for the Boeing 787.
But during the meetings with the unions, the company led by the CEO Alessandro Profumo confirmed that it intends to manage next year's vacant work by resorting to the Cigo .
The unions Uilm and Fiom Cgil decide the immediate strike at the end of the first meetings. However, the Fim dissociates: "there is dialogue with the company" reports the Corriere .
All the details on the Leonardo Grottaglie dispute.
WHY DO YOU STRIKE AGAIN
A strike, Uilm and Fiom explain, because the plant "is affected by an empty job, part of which is of a structural nature, decreed by market scenarios prior to the serious crisis in air transport which only subsequently significantly aggravated the reduction in production ( already announced by Boeing towards the end of 2019) due to the effects of anti Covid regulations ".
In fact, Leonardo confirmed its intention to cover job vacancies in 2022 with the use of the Cigo as a social safety net.
Specifically, the use of social safety nets should not be necessary for the Pomigliano and Nola plants in 2023, a partial use could be used in the first half of the same year on the Foggia plant. The situation is more delicate for the Grottaglie plant: here the use of social safety nets is foreseen for the years 2023 and 2024.
THE SITUATION SITE OF LEONARDO GROTTAGLIE
In fact, we recall that of the four factories of Leonardo's Aerostructures division, that of Grottaglie, in the province of Taranto, is most affected because, being a single contract, it suffers from the significant braking that occurred, both due to Covid and for problems that the Boeing client had with a supplier of the production chain, in the construction of the two fuselage sections of the 787.
For Uilm and Fiom, “the global pandemic has only exacerbated the pre-existing effects and made the future vision of the Aerostructures division and in particular of the Grottaglie plant, linked to the single production order of the Boeing 787, highly precarious”.
THE REQUEST OF THE UILM AND FIOM TRADE UNIONS
It is therefore confirmed that Leonardo has told the unions that for 2022 he wants to resort to layoffs to manage the job discharge. Since the Tarantino plant, of the four in the division, will be the most impacted, Uilm and Fiom argue that "there is no willingness on the part of the workers concerned to adhere to social safety nets programs due to the fact that there are no clear paths , defined, programmatic and specific for reindustrialisation, which aim at the real stability of the entire production chain ".
Therefore “the request to the company is to intervene in an incisive way in support of the Aerostructures division, redistributing the workload equally among the plants present on the national territory”, remarked Repubblica .
THE FIM DISSOLVES
However, the trade unions are divided, as emerges from the Corriere della Sera .
And the Fim dissociates itself from the lockout called by Uilm and Fiom on Monday 25 October regarding the announced use of the redundancy fund for the days of production stoppage envisaged by the company for the Grottaglie site.
"To deal with the matter in the appropriate places, because the Leonardo Aerostructures dispute is not a peripheral discussion that can be resolved with a site strike" declared the general secretary of Fim Cisl Taranto-Brindisi, Michele Tamburrano, and the Rsu Fim Cisl delegate of the Leonardo di Grottaglie site, Michele Sellaro, about the strike proclaimed yesterday.
“In compliance with the basic elements of trade union relations – observes Tamburrano – it is not correct to proclaim a strike in the presence of a dialogue with the company. Leonardo's management, to date, has never shied away from dialogue and the continuous meetings are proof of this. Therefore, only at the end of the comparison process, if we are not satisfied, will we take the necessary initiatives ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/leonardo-ecco-come-i-sindacati-si-dividono-sullo-sciopero-a-grottaglie/ on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:49:33 +0000.