Prot. 76
Rome, February 20, 2018
TEVA GROUP MEETING IN ITALY: DISAPPOINTING INFORMATION RECEIVED
At the request of the OO.SS. National teams of Filctem Femca and Uiltec a meeting was held on 19 February 2018 with the Italian Company Management for the companies TEVA ITALIA, SICOR TEVA, ACTAVIS, to verify the intentions of the Group, after the declarations of the CEO Kare Schultz of a major restructuring plan which provides for a cut of 14,000 jobs globally, to deal with the enormous financial debt accumulated in this last period.
Cost containment operations through job cuts give us a very worrying situation: 50% of employment (about 3000 workers) was cut in Israel; just as employment has been reduced in the USA, and is still going on in Mexico and Puerto Rico; as far as Europe is concerned, the initiatives to be taken are still being discussed but reductions have already been made in Bulgaria and Poland.
As far as Italy is concerned, even if the management is negotiating with the multinational in these hours, the Company Management has put forward some functional proposals to guarantee the maintenance of production and commercial activities through a reduction in costs and a review of the structures through a cut in employment of about 130 total units: 60 in TEVA ITALIA Pharma, 60 in SICOR TEVA, 10 in ACTAVIS.
Pending the feedback from the European meetings in progress, the ways in which the data was presented by the company were judged by the trade union delegation to be highly confused, lacking objective supporting data and insufficient from the point of view of the new organization and the industrial plan functional to guaranteeing the maintenance of the activities in the near future.
As National Secretariats we highlighted that only four months ago in a meeting in Assolombarda, while announcing a situation of financial difficulty at a global level, we were informed by the top management present, that at the production level in our country all budget results had been achieved and that we were not experiencing any particular problems, but rather an increase in production volumes.
The Company Management, during the meeting, however, kept reiterating that our country too must contribute with a cut in employment and costs to the global program in progress.
The National Secretariats have forcefully declared that without an industrial project and without the clarity of the objectives to be achieved, which identify a future for all the sites and all the activities, they are not available to face a discussion on the merits of the company proposals.
The first response of the entire trade union delegation present and of the Rsu, for the reasons specified above, was the rejection of the proposal presented in relation to the method and merits, and the proclamation of the opening of a STATE OF AGITATION with the BLOCK OF ALL FLEXIBILITIES, to be implemented in all company realities, until the next scheduled meeting between the parties.
In the face of all this, the comparison table for next February 27th has been updated
The National Secretariats have requested that the top corporate managers of the three legal entities be present at the next meeting to illustrate the industrial plan and the real intentions.
The National Secretariats
FILCTEM CGIL – FEMCA CISL – UILTEC UIL
