As Femca CISL, along with the workers who have turned to our union over the past year, we remain perplexed by the recent outcry over the closure of the historic tie manufacturing company in Masi San Giacomo.
A company that had been in a very difficult market situation for over two years had resorted to ordinary redundancy payments to try to "buy time" and determine if there were any conditions for recovery. The situation then came to the point of requesting extraordinary redundancy payments for a company that was already effectively closed.
It's no coincidence that when the workers we assisted came forward and explained the company's current situation, we advised them to resign immediately for "just cause," given their already unpaid wages. They also requested litigation to recover the unpaid wages and severance pay accrued by the company through the INPS Guarantee Fund.
A closure that had been announced for over a year, where the only solution was and has been to terminate the employment relationship through resignation, thus guaranteeing coverage of contributions and wages through unemployment benefits.
Pragmatism and consistency, in a context of crisis such as the past nine years, mean acknowledging that, unfortunately, companies that, sometimes through their own shortcomings, have been unable to continue their operations, are not the solution. The solution is to immediately resort to legislative guarantees to avoid continuing to work for free, with no prospects for the future.
As Femca CISL, we emphasize that the Luise Confezioni problem didn't arise today, nor has it escalated because the owner can't be contacted because she's on vacation outside our borders. We hope and pray that the workers who have so far hoped for the unexpected will also receive the coverage they deserve.
