TRIESTE – At Innoway’s Bagnoli della Rosandra plant (Trieste), a period of continuous wage support (CIG) will start tomorrow, 28 January, for at least eight days, with a possible extension.
The communication reached the company RSU today and immediately prompted a reaction from the unions, which are mainly contesting the lack of notice and the discrepancies compared with what was reported a few days ago at the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy.
According to Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm, at the ministerial meeting on 22 January management had outlined a different scenario, limiting recourse to CIG to a maximum of four Fridays linked to difficulties in sourcing materials. The decision announced today is described as a “serious lack of clarity” and a “lack of respect” towards workers and institutions. The unions have called a public workers’ assembly for tomorrow morning, open to the press, in front of the plant gates.
The Regional Councillor for Labour Alessia Rosolen also issued a strong statement. The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region expressed its “disappointment” at the use of wage support, which the company justified by an interruption in the supply chain following a fire at a supplier’s plant. For Rosolen, precisely because of this reason, it “would have been more correct and transparent” for this possibility to have been at least flagged during the meeting at the Ministry, given that the company must already have considered it among the possible scenarios.
The councillor also stressed the hope that Innoway will honour its commitments by moving quickly to replace suppliers, ideally strengthening the Made in Italy component of the industrial project. This step is considered essential to avoid further sacrifices by workers and to keep to the timelines set out in the industrial plan included in the programme agreement.
Even harsher was USB’s statement, accusing the company of a total lack of transparency and of having contradicted—in practice—the “positive” climate described just hours earlier at the ministerial meeting. USB denounces not only the sudden announcement of continuous CIG through 6 February, but also the deliberate exclusion of the union from meetings, which—according to what was reported—were convened only with Fim, Fiom and Uilm.
For USB, this is a serious choice that distorts union dialogue and compresses representation rights at a delicate moment for employment and work organisation. The union openly speaks of a deep gap between official statements and the real management of the factory and says that, absent a change in attitude, it is ready to take legal action. It also calls on institutions not to ignore such significant decisions taken immediately after a ministerial meeting and without what it considers a proper and inclusive union discussion.
Attention now turns to the filing—announced at MIMIT—of the documentation needed by Invitalia to access financing under the Development Contract, which unions consider a decisive step to secure financial resources and unlock the structural investments planned at the Trieste plant.
