The redundancy fund for 1,111 workers is released to the ABS

Pozzuolo: company and union signed an agreement in Cargnacco that provides for the activation of seven weeks of social safety net, from November 25th to January 16th 2020

POZZUOLO DEL FRIULI. Go ahead for the ordinary redundancy fund in Abs. Company and union signed an agreement yesterday in Cargnacco that provides for the activation of 7 weeks of social safety net – from November 25th to January 16th 2020 – for a total of 1,111 workers of which 808 workers and 303 employees.

The cashier will be used in a flexible way, depending on the orders and departments that in the coming weeks will be more or less in crisis.

"The situation has worsened compared to the last meeting – he announced yesterday on the sidelines of the signing Francesco Barbaro of Fim Cisl Fvg – and for this reason the company decided to ask for the activation of a layoff as it could no longer manage the moment with ordinary tools, a practice that we have challenged from the beginning: it is not possible in fact to ask the workers to sacrifice holidays, in some cases not even matured, or unpaid permits, "added the trade unionist who, on Tuesday 12th, signed the agreement together with the provincial colleagues of Fiom Cgil, David Bassi, and Uilm Uil, Luigi Oddo.

The company will give notice of the departments that will be suspended at RSU on Wednesday next week. "The hypothesis is that it starts with the mills of Mars and Luna but at the moment it is only an indication that it will have to be confirmed" added Barbaro announcing a new waltz of assemblies for the beginning of next week: "We will meet the workers between 19 , 20 and 22 November to illustrate the contents of the agreement ".

An agreement that the cislino would like to see applied also to the induced Abs, because the crisis that bites the cascading steelworks has hit the many, small and medium enterprises that work in its supply chain. "" Many companies in the related sector are in severe distress and are in turn using leave and unpaid leave to manage the moment.

Now that we have found a solution for Abs – Barbaro announced – we will also have to deal with these external situations that concern between 300 and 400 people ". The wind of the crisis must be said not only for Cargnacco.

Left Abs, trade unionists presented yet another day of fire to pursue a proliferation of requests for redundancy which, according to estimates by Fim Cisl in the province of Udine alone, now involve 4,000 workers.

The concern therefore goes beyond the steel plant. "It is a general problem of the whole region – confirmed David Bassi of Fiom Cgil -. There are many requests for redundancy, several major crises.

As for Abs, the good thing is that we are talking about a shock absorber of only seven weeks in duration, a sign that the company is going to have to resolve the situation soon, finally with an appropriate tool. Activating the cash register – he concluded – was a duty, indeed, it had to be done much earlier ”.