My Mom Touched My Breasts

Il triste Natale dei lavoratori Unilever

L'Unione Sarda 19/12/2008 pag 23

I dipendenti dello stabilimento hanno ricevuto nei giorni scorsi le lettere di licenziamento.

Scade la cassa integrazione: nessuna certezza sul rinnovo

È un Natale amaro quello che vivono i dipendenti della Unilever: la cassa integrazione è in scadenza. Non resta che sperare nella proroga.
Unilever punto e a capo. Si avvicina la scadenza della cassa integrazione straordinaria, fissata il 31 dicembre, ma la clessidra del futuro dei lavoratori dello stabilimento di viale Marconi ancora non è stata capovolta.

Se da una parte, i dipendenti, circa una settantina, sperano in una seconda boccata di ossigeno della durata di altri 12 mesi, che arriverebbe con una deroga dell'ammortizzatore sociale, dall'altra cedono allo sconforto, davanti allo spettro di una mobilità che si sta materializzando con le lettere di licenziamento recapitate quasi alla vigilia di Natale.

La multinazionale, in fact, that the plant produces ice cream Algida Cagliari, in these days is sending the communication to employees' termination of employment for staff reduction. "

HOPE Not exactly a bolt from the blue, this is a step already planned that should not affect a possible extension of unemployment benefits, which should be discussed at Cagliari in a scheduled meeting next Monday between the company and organizations unions. This does not mean it is not an unwelcome gift, plus a handful of days from the festivities. That can never be like those of "two years ago, when our work situation was calm in there never would have expected an epilogue like that, "says Mark Caulfield embittered, RSU representative.

Instead, the ground beneath their feet began to tremare.L 'lifesaver agreement, signed by delegates from business, the regional minister Romina Congera, the provincial Piero Comandini, trade unions and representatives of Confindustria, a year ago c' was. The problem is that in the meantime no one took over the shares. The gates were armored, someone was accompanied into retirement, others have asked for an advance payment of severance pay and all they had to revise their life plans. "Before I could afford to buy gifts for family and friends but not now," Caulfield complains, "I can not give anything to anyone."

EXTENDING The only consolation, at least Christmas, could be "the extension, suitable for those who can get close to retirement but also for the young, who will have another year of breathing," says Salvatore Cadelano, employee. Although, under the tree, or at least in January, it is clear that you would like to find "a plan by some really interested buyer." The passage is as close as that of December 22. Objective extension, for "trying to create the conditions for" Francesco Piras hopes of CISL You, "with the intervention of some local entrepreneur can resume productive activity."

Times string: "He waited until the last minute," says Pasquale Deiana, Uila-Uil. Rita Poddesu, Flai-CGIL, believes that "an extension is reached, we are confident." To have hope is the willingness expressed by the company yesterday, in Rome, during a meeting with the national trade union secretariats on the new corporate structure, during which he also did a quick nod to Cagliari.

CALIGARIS Resounding the need for an extension of unemployment benefits is the regional director Maria Grazia Caligaris Socialist (PS), drawing attention to "sull'ennesimo drama that requires a strong reaction from the region, partly because the tissue Industrial the island has become so weakened as not to allow the absorption of workers in other sectors. " If not initiated the request for exemption of unemployment compensation, for Caligaris, "the more punishment of dismissal letter, from Jan. 1, will increase the number of unemployed in the island."

MARIANGELA Lampis