The trade union organizations have been asking for it for some time and finally the date is here: for next Tuesday 30 April the business minister Adolfo Urso has called the national secretariats of Uilm, Fim Cisl and Fiom CGIL to talk about the Beko-Whirlpool dispute.
There will be no local representatives of the trade unions at the meeting nor will the leaders of the new company which has been managing the Viale Toselli site since the beginning of April and employs three hundred Sienese workers. Urso, we remember, had already seen the CEO of Beko Europe Ragıp Balcıoğlu, the CEO of Beko Hakan Bulgurlu and Fabio Colombo, vice president of the human resources area of Beko Europe.
Among Palazzo Piacentini’s requests to the company was that of valorising national production. The Roman one will be a very small table: only the three national general secretaries of Uilm, Fim Cisl and Fiom CGIL will be present as well as the representatives of the ministry.
Yesterday the meeting between the local unions was held with the mayor of Siena Nicoletta Fabio, the deputy of Fratelli d’Italia Francesco Michelotti and the deputy mayor of Siena, Michele Capitani. Uilm, Fiom Cgil and Fim Cisl had once again asked the mayor for a commitment to “put pressure” on the national executive in order to activate a ministerial table, awaited for months, on the matter.
The organizations want to have the opportunity to meet the top management of Beko Europe to discuss what the group’s industrial plan will be and to therefore learn about the multinational’s future strategies and prospects. Mayor Fabio and deputy Michelotti had undertaken to hold a meeting with the undersecretary Fausta Bergamotto in the meantime.
