The Cobas union is organizing meetings on Thursday 20 March starting from 6.00 am in front of the entrance to the Enel power plant in Cerano to explain to all the company’s workers how serious the provocations carried out by the Sir company are.
The SIR company during the meeting held on Monday 17 June at the Arpal in Brindisi in via Torpisani, during the dismissal procedure for 76 workers engaged until yesterday in the coal unloading contract, reiterated that it wanted to proceed with the dismissals eliminating any possibility of layoffs.
The serious provocation of the SIR arises from the refusal of the trade union organizations to the company proposal that in the case of recourse to the redundancy fund, the workers should have to pay the costs of the same through the cancellation of second level agreements.
For this reason, Cobas turned to the Prefect of Brindisi, Luigi Carnevale, for a new meeting to update him on the situation that has become dramatic; together with the request for another new meeting in Bari at the Regional Task Force on Employment in the presence of Enel and SIR, the same subjects of the last meeting where commitments were made by SIR for the use of the redundancy fund.
The facts: the law on social safety nets provides that in the event of cessation of activity there may be a year of redundancy pay.
The SIR during a meeting at the Regional Task Force on Employment, led by President Leo Caroli, had accepted the use of the one-year redundancy fund.
This would have allowed us to have time to try to obtain the alternative investments promised by Enel, which at a certain point disappeared.
In a brazen and incredible way, SIR asks the trade unions that the workers who remain at work must give up what they have obtained with second level agreements over the years, starting from meal vouchers and more.
To the negative response of all the workers, SIR states that it does not intend to bear the costs, which are minimal for those who have earned a lot with Enel, for the redundancy fund and that it intends to continue along the path of layoffs.
The Cobas union will make proposals to fight during the meetings and is ready to reject the provocations of ENEL and SIR and to raise the barricades to defend all the workers of the Cerano power plant.
For Cobas Roberto Aprileù
