WELCOME (FISASCAT-CISL): “TERTIARY AND INDUSTRY RELATED SECTORS, GREATER ATTENTION FROM ALL INSTITUTIONS”
Mercatone Uno, 1360 employees in the 34 stores of the well-known brand of furniture and furnishing accessories for which the Court of Bologna has authorized the special sale of goods. None of the three stores in the province (Ferrara, Mesola, San Giuseppe di Comacchio) are among the 34 whose closure has been announced.
The uncertainty about the future actually concerns all the workers and associates of Mercatone Uno (4,000 in Italy and 80 in the province of Ferrara); no acquisition proposal by a potential investor has yet been formalized, which the management of Mercatone Uno has repeatedly reported to the unions, which, however, according to the latest news reported in the media, should concern only a part of the 79 stores.
“Even in Ferrara, in accordance with the national commitment, we believe it is necessary to shine a spotlight on the delicate issue of Mercatone Uno – says the provincial secretary of Fisascat-Cisl Luca Benfenati – the workers, when they risk losing their jobs, should all be equal and receive the same attention”. “Mercatone Uno – continued the union leader – is an emblematic case of the underestimation of the risks that the country is running: we could find ourselves, in a short time, to be a peripheral market and of no interest to national and foreign investors. The tertiary sector, like the industrial sector, deserves greater attention also from the Government and the institutions”
