Unicredit, 8000 redundancies and 500 closed branches: a bloodbath, a disturbing scenario

A bloodbath for Unicredit: the Italian banking giant cuts employees and branches. The redundancies I'm 8,000 (5,500 in Italy), while they will be closed 500 branches, 450 only on our territory according to what was communicated by the unions. A financial, social and labor bomb about to explode, yet another after the cases Whirlpool and ex Ilva. The new Unicredit Business Plan worries the Fisac-Cgil, according to which "the number of redundancies is disproportionate to the objectives of the plan". "It is not credible – they accuse Luca Dapporto is Susy Esposito – that such a clear cut in the workforce is justified by an industrial organic growth plan. We would not want this slimming cure to be the prelude to scenarios of European aggregations that remove Unicredit from Italy. For us, the head of the group must remain Italian and Unicredit must continue to guarantee support for our country's economy ".

"We will try to understand what is happening and to intervene if there should be any redundancies", explained the Minister of Labor Nunzia Catalfo, of the M5s. "Our goal – he explained – is not to intervene in an emergency, but to prevent the crises in some way. For example, through an observatory on the labor market that begins to study what are the sectors in Italy in which one invests and which are the sectors in distress, thus anticipating crises. This is our path to take forward in the medium term ".