It will be a "hot" September.
Decisive, certainly, for thousands of Pontine workers. The trade union agenda is busy. Of meetings with an uncertain outcome, of disputes with an unimaginable conclusion.
2008 was a difficult year; a year that saw an overall structural crisis that had already been delicate for years worsening. The criticality of the metalworker and the escape of the large multinationals from a territory that is now openly no longer competitive has been joined by the debacle of the chemical-pharmaceutical sector which has involved some of the most solid Pontine industrial realities. From Bristol to Recordati, Pfizer, Gambro, Janssen, all the most prestigious international pharmaceutical brands present in the area have been forced to announce more or less substantial downsizings due to a series of negative economic situations (patent expiration, the advent of generic products) aggravated – denounce the top management – by the total absence of support and/or incentive policies. To these disputes (obviously of a national dimension) which from the next few days will hold court in the ministerial offices, there will be added those (of equal scope, albeit more closely connected to local issues) which have instead invested another historical sector and until some time ago mainstay of the Latina system: the dairy sector.
Above all, the Pettinicchio case is emblematic, closed by Granarolo due to an industrial strategy that effectively snatched a prestigious brand from the area and transferred it to Bologna.
The recent events of the «Pontine aeronautical hub» that never took off, with the «Meccano case» in primis, complete the picture of a truly borderline situation that has all the credentials to make us fear a hot autumn also from the point of view of protest trade union. "The most worrying situation is undoubtedly that of the chemical-pharmaceutical sector" - admits Salvatore d'Incertopadre, provincial secretary of the CGIL who very realistically aims at a minimal objective: the maintenance of the production base pending the repositioning of the big brands on the international scene . This would, if nothing else, avoid the social drama given that these companies employ thousands of Pontine workers.
Rita Calicchia Il Tempo of 08/31/2008 ed. Latin
Janssen case, the Region discusses it on Tuesday
The first appointment on the agenda is already for Tuesday 2 September. In fact, a meeting between the social partners on the Janssen Cilag case is scheduled in the Lazio region in Rome. As is known, on 16 June the company opened a mobility procedure for 65 employees belonging to the Medical Device department, whose productions were transferred to Ireland. This redundancy occurs at the end of a path that has already seen the termination of more than 300 fixed-term contracts in the Janssen factory for a year now.
In short, a waning phase that worries us to the point of making us believe that this crisis is now irreversible even and above all if read in the context of a global context (Recordati, Bristol, Pfizer, Gambro, Abbott, Janssen) which legitimately suggests a domino effect in the Lazio Pharmaceutical Chemical Pole. The meeting at the headquarters of the Lazio Region is aimed in particular at identifying the least traumatic solution possible for the 65 workers destined to be made redundant.
Some of these have already demonstrated their adherence to a hypothesis of incentivized "voluntary exodus". For others it will be a question of finding a possible position in other company departments. Hypothesis supported by the unions but at the moment always rejected by the company.
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