Mirandola, 14 June 2024 – While messages of solidarity pour in for Bellco workers, the ministry has made it known that “it is ready to implement any useful action to identify an industrial solution that guarantees the protection of employment and production”. Even the President of the Region Stefano Bonaccini, fresh from his election to the European Parliament, announced yesterday that within a few days he will convene a crisis table, to which he will invite all the parties, including the American multinational. However, the company’s announcement of the 350 redundancies communicated to the union representatives weighs heavily. “We must change the minds – Bonaccini said firmly – of those who, in a shameful and intolerable manner for the history of Emilia-Romagna, informed us of the cuts of hundreds of workers. What has happened is not tolerable and I can’t wait to look these people in the eyes. I say to the workers that you can count on the determination, passion and work that the Region will do alongside you and the union representatives. We will also ask Confindustria – he continued – to lend a hand: it usually does. because I don’t think it can boast if a company allows itself to leave so many people at home. I say to the company that we are open to any negotiation, but they should immediately withdraw the decision to leave so many people at home. This company is not in crisis: Even if it were, we would be available to help with industrial reconversion processes, but we cannot imagine that a multinational like this is not able to proceed with a renewal of the work process, guaranteeing the dignity of work for all”. Reassurances appreciated by those who today see their future threatened and also by the mayors of the Northern Area, who all arrived yesterday, from Claudio Poletti from Finale, to Monja Zanibioni from Camposanto, to Stefano Venturini from Cavezzo, to Marika Menozzi from Concordia, to Alberto Calciolari of Medolla, Alberto Greco of Mirandola, Veronica Morselli of San Pesistenzanio, and Gian Carlo Muzzarelli in his capacity, he himself said, as vice president of the Province, to bear their testimony of closeness to the workers. “The battle we are waging – explained Daniele Dieci of the CGIL – is to demonstrate that here procedures of this type, messages of this type which trample on the dignity of workers will not pass.”
