“I ask for the dismissals to be revoked. I spoke with the mayor of Monteriggioni, Andrea Frosini, and we are working to have a direct meeting with the owners of the company”. The president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, announces his strategy regarding the Avi.Coop. affair, in light of the Amadori Group’s decision to close the Monteriggioni production area with the consequent loss of jobs for a total of two hundred employees . Meanwhile, preparations are underway for the demonstration on Thursday 20 June in Cesena: a demonstration by the workers of Monteriggioni, on strike for eight hours. The employees will reach the Amadori headquarters in the Romagna city with three buses. Departures scheduled from Poggibonsi, from Colle di Val d’Elsa, from Siena.
Among the representatives of the institutions, the mayor of Monteriggioni, Andrea Frosini, his deputy, Paola Buti, the president of the Province, David Bussagli, and the regional councilor Anna Paris announced their participation. “We are deeply concerned – explains President Bussagli – because the dispute, which we have been following since the very first alarms from the trade union organisations, puts the survival of a production site and the jobs of 200 people at risk. The sit in in Cesena in front of the headquarters of the Amadori group must be the push to change the company’s attitude and return to the table with different positions”. The group confirms that “for us the table remains the place in which to discuss with institutions and trade union organisations”, among the acronyms also the Fillea CGIL of Siena expresses in a note “its total and absolute solidarity with the workers of the Amadori Group object of such shameful injustice”. Fillea Cgil explains: “The wicked decision to close the Avi.Coop. plant in Monteriggioni is an unjustified, unilateral and very serious choice, which not only puts 200 families in extreme difficulty, but devastates the constitutional principle of corporate social responsibility. On the 20th June we will be present in Cesena alongside the Flai Cgil Siena and the Avi.Coop workers in the fight to keep their jobs – continues the trade union category of construction workers – just as we were present on 12 June in Florence under the headquarters. of the Tuscany Region when the first regional institutional meeting with the Company took place”.
Again on behalf of Fillea Cgil Siena, it is pointed out that “social butchering like the one that Amadori has planned must not be accepted, but contrasted with a determined trade union struggle – concludes the trade union organization – with respect to which all the institutions must also make the their part. Consumers should also evaluate whether it is appropriate to be fooled by hypocritical and capitalist advertising propaganda or whether it is appropriate to make more social and fairer consumerist choices”. From 11.30am to 2pm the day after tomorrow, the Avi.Coop workers’ demonstration will take place. in Cesena. The protest, called by Flai Cgil, Fai Cisl and Uila Uil, against the closure of the Monteriggioni production site and the dismissal of 200 employees, is extended to the workers of the various sites, in several regions, of the Amadori Group, who will abstain from work for two hours again next Thursday.
