Efforts to Save Jobs at Nuroll Continue Amidst Negotiations

Over an hour-long summit this morning between the Campania region's labor councilor Antonio Marchiello, the top management of the Nuroll company in Pignataro Maggiore, and Confindustria Caserta. The brand will remain in Italy, as requested by the Region, but the employment issue has not yet been resolved. The meeting is a step that follows a previous meeting last week between the unions Cgil, Cisl-Uil, Filctem, Femca, Uiltec, and Cisal Fialc and the president of the council of the Campania region Gennaro Oliviero, the councilor for professional training Armida Filippelli, councilor Marchiello, and the mayor of the municipality of Pastorano, Vincenzo Russo. Today, on the table, there is a push towards saving the 78 jobs at the company operating in the food packaging sector in the province of Caserta. "We have put forward more than one proposal to support the company and the jobs, but it seems that there are no openings for dialogue on this front. We will not stop, as the Campania Region we will continue pressing. In the coming weeks, I have requested another technical roundtable on the topic of social safety nets," stated Marchiello. The meeting, in video conference with the chief executive officer Faik Onaldi, the president of Confindustria Caserta, Beniamino Schiavone, and the staff of the regional department for productive activities and labor, addressed the points of continuing production, the conversion of the plant, and finally, the possibility of an acquisition of the company by other investors (hypotheses put forward by the regional entity). The CEO of Nuroll, however, explained that there are competitors such as China, Pakistan, and India who produce the same goods at competitive and lower prices. "For now, we have managed to secure, at our request - concludes councilor Marchiello - the rooting of the production brand here." "We are activating all political channels to avoid closure, today's is another step towards saving jobs," declared the president of the council of the Campania Region, Gennaro Oliviero, who concluded: "We must keep open the double channel: the pressing for the continuity of the company's production and the dialogue with the employees."