Why the workers of Getronics Italia manifest in Amsterdam
One year ago a delegation of employees of Getronics Italia met with our Corporate Board to report on errors in the management, the non-respect of the rights of workers and the growing tendency towards the out-sourcing of the DTS activities and E-Learning. In such occasion we informed the Corporate that these decisions would have put many employees at risk let alone worsening the economic result of Getronics Italia with new losses.
Top Management of Getronics N.V. listened to us, but confirmed their trust and endorsement for the choices of the Italian management. Unfortunately we were right: Getronics Italia losses for the 2005 are almost doubled, the Corporate wants to sell the controlled Italian company, maintaining a minor share, and hundreds of new dismissals are now announced.
The Italian workers are fighting against these decisionsin order to make the Corporate bare on its social responsibilities: it is not acceptable that after the omissions of the Italian management and the guilty coverage of the Corporate, the solo ones to pay are the workers. The losses of the Italian controlled company, in these years, are not the result of the ITC market behaviour, but a natural consequence of very poor management, of choices that have intentionally created this internal situation.
Dear colleagues of GetronicsNV, the Italian workers, together with thetrade unions, demand that the Corporate start a true comparison towards understanding what has happened in Italy. This exercise is needed to better manage the emergency, the reorganisation and the reaffirmationof the Group. Our engagement, the one of the national institutions and the involvement of the European Community, can help to better manage this situation, nevertheless the Corporate has to give clear evidence that it is willing to partecipate and to take on its own social responsibilities.
THE RSU COORDINATION OF GETRONICS GROUP FIM, FIOM, UILM NATIONAL TRADE UNIONSITC
Getronics NVItaly
Amsterdam May 23rd 2006
Getronics Italia
May 2006
