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May 23, 2011
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- Fincantieri's business plan includes 2,551 job losses, closure of the yards of Castellammare and Sestri and scaling of the plant in Riva Trigoso
- No compact unions. The workers' protest gathers the solidarity of local institutions
 The cuts under the plan of Fincantieri, the unions presented today by CEO of the company, Giuseppe Bono, are greater than expected. 2,551 redundancies are planned on a total of approximately 8,500 employees of the group and the closure of two of the eight plants Fincantieri, namely the shipyards in Sestri Ponente (Genoa) and Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), and the downsizing of the shipyard in Riva Trigoso (Genoa), which keeps the machine shop and lose the military construction and the employees will be transferred to another establishment of the Ligurian Muggiano (La Spezia).
- In particular, some 1,400 job losses would be determined by the closure of two plants (the transfer of workers from Riva Trigoso Muggiano would not be considered redundant) and the other 1,150 would be made in five other Italian offices of the group.
- Compact the no trade unions in this case calling for a restructuring of government intervention and the opening of a table on the crisis of national shipbuilding. Immediate protest by workers of Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa, who quit his job to start a demonstration, and employees of the establishment of Campania Castellammare outside the headquarters of Confindustria in Rome where the meeting took place with the company.
- Fincantieri to unions explained the crisis in the global shipbuilding and European, and particularly the cruise industry is a leader in the Italian company. In this last segment in 2007, before the global economic crisis, were ordered 16 cruise ships (including eight from Fincantieri) for a total of 1.7 million compensated gross tons. The following year, orders were issued for only three cruise ships (including two from Fincantieri), for a total of 173,000 compensated gross tonnage. In 2009 he was issued a single order for a cruise ship 130 thousand gross tons (about 0.1 million cgt) issued by the U.S. group Carnival against Fincantieri. In 2010 new orders were for the construction of seven cruise ships (two Fincantieri) for a total of over 900 thousand cgt.In the period 2008-2010 the European shipbuilding industry has lost 50,000 jobs, representing 30% of the total, but up to now in Italy there has been no reduction in employment due to social and blockage of turnover.
- Commenting on the contents of the plan, the Italian Union of Metalworkers (Uilm) explained that the document provides that an analysis of the market situation for the next 3-4 years, there will be a productive unsaturation for about 4 to 4.5 million hours per year worked and then Fincantieri, to safeguard the stability of the group considers it necessary to launch a pre-scaling production (reducing the production capacity of three yards) with a consequent impact on employment arrangements. "How Uilm - said the national secretary of the union and head of the shipbuilding sector, Mario Ghini - we argued that we can not accept a plan in which the solution of the revival of Fincantieri steps by reducing the sites of the group and its subsequent reduction employment.While recognizing the difficult situation of the international market which today has no positive signs for the future, for Uilm is necessary to maintain an industrial group that has always drawn its strength from its uniqueness and productive integration of the company, for this we are ready to make a path that Fincantieri's most competitive markets, more efficient product, but at the same time must be safeguarded and all employment arrangements of the group's industrial settlements. It is also necessary for Uilm, especially in light of the announcement today by Fincantieri - continued Ghini - he recovers the comparison to the Ministry of Economic Development also because the government must do its part to safeguard the group's largest naval-mechanical national. "
- La Camera del Lavoro Metropolitana di Genova and Liguria CGIL have expressed "a clear and profound disagreement with the contents of the industrial plan presented today by Fincantieri of trade unions." "It's a plane - they explained the trade unions - which does not hesitate to define irresponsible. It wants to destroy the heritage of an entire employment and industrial land.One can not but underline the government's silence on this subject, with that attitude that clearly favors the construction jobs in the North East of the country, subjecting themselves to a clear geopolitical logic. " Camera del Lavoro CGIL Liguria and have called for an immediate call by the government.
- Against the protests of workers have expressed solidarity with many local institutions in the yards of the home sites. Among others, the President of the Liguria Region, Claudio Burlando, who has called for next Wednesday at 15.30 a meeting to evaluate the actions to be taken in the light of the business plan for Fincantieri to which were invited the mayors of the municipalities involved in the plan, the presidents of the provinces of Genoa and La Spezia and the union representatives.
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