More than a third of the staff made redundant. This was announced by the Dutch pharmaceutical multinational, which intends to transfer the processes of its Bologna headquarters to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic
BY MARCO BETTAZZI
Nineteen layoffs out of 52 employees. The umpteenth reduction in personnel in the Emilian companies comes from Fagron Italia in via del Fonditore, the former Polichimica. The Dutch multinational has in fact announced the cut in production at the Roveri plant, the only one in Italy, to transfer them to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, opening the mobility procedure for more than a third of its employees. But the unions immediately proclaimed a 32-hour strike (first stop on 5 November) complaining in particular the fact that among the reasons indicated by the company there is also that in Italy there is "a very critical social and political scenario". Scenario "that has nothing to do with the professionalism and resources present in the company that it is now trying to eliminate", underline the CGIL and CISL, who promise battle and ask for the use of solidarity contracts.
Fagron bought Polichimica in 2007 and today produces and distributes raw materials for the preparation of medicines and food supplements. According to the plans of the Dutch parent company, to relaunch the company, the productions that are carried out within the Bologna office must be moved abroad and this leads to a redundancy of 19 people out of 52 employees. "With the result therefore that in Holland and the Czech Republic workers will also work at night and in Italy they will lose their jobs", denounce the unions, who then declared a package of strike hours to be carried out in the next few days during the negotiations, which according to the CGIL and CISL should lead to the formulation of an alternative industrial plan and the use of the solidarity contract to mitigate the impact of redundancies, also by reorganizing work in the Bologna office.
In the letter communicating the decision, Fagron underlines the "heavy losses" suffered by the Italian branch in the
