Prot. 76
Rome, February 20, 2018
TEVA GROUP MEETING IN ITALY: DISAPPOINTING INFORMATION RECEIVED
Su richiesta delle OO.SS. Nazionali di Filctem Femca e Uiltec si è svolto nella giornata del 19 febbraio 2018 l’incontro con la Direzione Aziendale Italia per le realtà TEVA ITALIA, SICOR TEVA, ACTAVIS, per verificare le intenzioni del Gruppo, dopo le dichiarazioni del CEO Kare Schultz di un grande piano di ristrutturazione che prevede un taglio di 14.000 posti occupazionali a livello globale, per far fronte all’enorme indebitamento finanziario accumulato in questo ultimo periodo.
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.
Per quanto riguarda l’Italia, anche se la dirigenza sta trattando con la multinazionale in queste ore, la Direzione Aziendale ha avanzato alcune proposte funzionali a garantire il mantenimento delle attività produttive e commerciali attraverso una riduzione dei costi ed una revisione delle strutture attraverso un taglio dell’occupazione di circa 130 unità totali: 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