Speech by Angela Bindi the City Council of 22 February 2010 on the employment crisis and Novartis SWISEL
How minority forces, we ask this council can discuss the plight of employment that is emerging for our area, where the largest production companies are unleashing attacks and instrumental incomprehensible employment.
SWISEL With regard to the crisis lasts a long time, the reduction in employment levels has already occurred over the years, from more than 100 workers of the early investment to the existing 28 and in fear for future employment held ... given the lack of ability to present a business plan to relaunch the product, that is high quality, for example, medical containers could be purchased by civil protection for the earthquake to the Abruzzo or Haiti ....
Instead Novartis regarding the case is very different, here we are dealing with a company that in 2009 he enjoyed an outstanding balance above all expectations 44.267 billion dollars during the calendar year 2009 , up 7% compared to 2008, compared with one billion came directly from local production, and 10 billion profit, decided to remove the trading system, arguing saying absolutely groundless " that making the move responds to the urgent necessity to put the company in a position to maintain and improve their competitiveness in the medium and long term "than to say that the figures of the informants pharmaceuticals are no longer useful because the tenders would be at regional level.
These are distortions of the capitalist system, where the multinationals, beyond what they write in their brochures on the social responsibilities:
- respect for work and the worker
- importance of the social welfare of families
- protection of the workplace as a tool for human dignity ...
decide to demolish the workers as if they were pawns to be sacrificed on the altar of profit, even if this is a double-digit profit, Glaxo see who fired 4,000 people in 550 in Italy because the profits were 11 instead of 14% and this in a year of global crisis.
pact on state-Novartis also weighs the story, however, silent about the mainstream press, Minister welfare and health, Mr. Sacconi, Minister until last December that he could play the role of institutional guarantor of public health while his wife, he still holds the post of director general of Farmitalia, the association that represents the interests pharmaceutical companies. Nobody at the time found the obvious conflict of interest.
But to understand more precisely the perverse logic of this multinational just re-read what Mark wrote Never ADNovartis Italy, in September,
"We are interested in investing on 'Italy, in fact we were able to maintain levels employment (3,800 persons, ed. ) -.
But the conditions have to change: you need a quick and easy access to the market, all recognition 'innovation, more dialogue with the Government and the Regions. If we invest, we expect a return. "
"We are the only ones who did not put the workers on the move and I think I can maintain this level of employment again next year, but much depends on the decisions of the Italian government.
If they choose to further reduce the roof of the public pharmaceutical expenditure, which we believe should remain at 14% but dropped to 13.3%, probably will make necessary adjustments. I need to know where to invest and how sustainability. "
Province of Siena is a reality, our administrators are not prepared to negotiate with such realities, we have passed from Sclavo, Siena and humanized the whole company .. then move on to Eni, the then Marcucci family, which then cost us a good reputation through infected blood, finally to arrive at Chiron to Novartis, giants increasingly distant from our local reality.
From Siena Novartis claims much, but it is already in place a quiet detachment that I pleased the union made it known in numbers and professionalism of the workers as they are summoned by the office staff and forced to resign contracted.
of this practice we are aware in regard to a worker who did not accept the "treatment" and this was accompanied to the gates with methods humanly unacceptable and out of our industrial relations.
Siena Typically these workers are in their 50s. Hardly relocatable. These are systematically replaced with staff on fixed-term contracts and temporary employment and not tied to the territory. See hundreds of assumptions "pumped" from southern Italy, especially Naples area, rather than absorb the staff made the move from Flores, or Calp or the myriad of small businesses in our province are paying a heavy price to the crisis.
Instead, these companies was taken only a small number of workers, just to shut up the institutions to which but wonder large benefits.
Infrastructure - storey complex - buildings facilitated in every way - freedom of emissions, etc .... penalty constant employment blackmail.
Just read the communiqué Rappuoli, on parliamentary questions that get to say
"Everyone is 'absolutely free to submit questions in that wish, some of us is because of bitterness' in this whole affair Italy should be proud to have been at the forefront in scientific and commercial research and vaccine development. " "Of course this kind of controversy threatens jobs - he added, referring to the controversy that followed the decision by Novartis to eliminate 24 positions just in Siena. To me it becomes hard to ask Novartis to further invest in Siena if you are then this type of reaction. "
I wonder
How can fulfill its role a mayor who is blamed for having legitimately function for its mission namely protecting the worker ?
And how can a local government to protect its territory, the health of its citizens, in the presence of the continuous blackmail of these companies.
But even when the government allowed builders guarantee, variants, planes, airports, emissions free .... If governments do not reach the levels of pharmaceutical expenditure request (this time was 14% see Mark Never ..) are worthless previous concessions.
It is clear that states are increasingly hostage to the multinational companies, only in this light we can understand the 24 layoffs, which could be even just a warning signal to get the full payment of 24 million doses of vaccine (but only delivered to the Italian government 10 million).
It appears that both n place a confrontation between the Novartis , and our government would not want to pay more the remainder of the vaccines were booked and not used to and ll'appello miss 90 million on 184 planned.
Another key to of layoffs is a future relocation of production, and then the inexorable reduction in employment levels over the coming months could reach the 500 temporary workers or forward. Proof of this would be the stabilization of non 25 temporary workers in 3 years working in the that will most likely be replaced.
This possibility is not excluded because the company has no plan to medium term, while talking of moving production of flu vaccine, as well as polio, but with regard to vaccine for meningitis still do not know where it will be produced ... ..
insurance And if there are only for 2010 and 2011, and investments are so limited ... 15 million to two in Siena and Rosia, HOW SHOULD I FEEL 2000 EMPLOYEES AS NEVER CALL THEM? AND HOW CAN SET THEIR LIFE AND THEIR FUTURE?
How come no one asks for a real social responsibility to corporations? And how can 'compete in the 1st world countries that provide funding and labor at a reduced cost of a 5 °?
But back to our territory, Masi The administration has included in the Structure Plan for the area 240,000 square meters of Bellaria, all things are yet to be built 822,000 cubic meters, which are a magnitude.
All this is designed for the development of Pole Biotechnology, although the former area Bayer is largely empty and can accommodate most of these volumes.
WE DO NOT WE WILL NEVER AGREE TO FILL THE POST OF VIRGIN LAND THAT HAS IN BAYER!
administration but never justify the reasons he decided to expand in the direction of Rosia and it looks like under pressure from Novartis. Eroding hectares of virgin land and ending in an agricultural area and destroy all of great natural beauty and landscape.
So we ask: Novartis deserves all this appeasement? Or is it legitimate to go back to this wicked overbuilding of a 'very sensitive area for the aquifer?
This company has always gotten everything he asked, consumes 500 cubic meters of water per day and after use ends up in the ditch and then reel in the Merse, I want to remind you that in just two checks from the waters were Arpat not up to standard.
There have been oil spills ever in the pit reel. There was and there is use of paraformaldehyde for the sterilization of the premises, while the amount declared by the corporation, was minimal.
L 'Arpat the 06/03/2009, sent to the Mayor and the Province of Siena, a note which read: " Novartis using paraformaldehyde, for the purpose of reclamation and disinfecting process, a substance that is transformed as a result of fumigation in formaldehyde (IARC in June of 2004 has classified formaldehyde in Group I - Carcinogenic found to humans). Subsequent ventilation of the fumigated involves the emission of formaldehyde. "
the substance is in use is that of the establishment of Rosia Siena and, in particular, is used both to Rosia in research laboratories in the production departments. " More specifically states Rosia that were made 20 fumigation fumigations in 2007 and 24 in 2008, while there have been no reported data fumigations in Siena during the same period.
Arpat asked the municipalities to " issue interim measures against Novartis for the submission of the application for authorization pursuant to art. 269 \u200b\u200bof Legislative Decree no. 152/2006 " ,
while now does not have any kind of emissions permits and to us there's advisers denied even the right to view the results of the technical committee which was held on emissions between administrations, the Arpat and Novartis.
Document also belongs to us as stated by the Regional Ombudsman Dr. Morales.
Finally, but the topic deserves to be treated in the first place, the agreements that the company has entered into with private hospitals so that (as we hear) employees who accidentally get hurt at work they are requested to these institutions instead of the Public Hospital Emergency Department. This makes us think that in this way the company might want to avoid the accident INAIL statements. Even the union of this welcome to give us more detailed information and if those facts correspond to reality
Why WORLD LEADER IN PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS COMPANY NEEDS TO SAVE SAFETY?
We objectively concerned about the turn that is taking the whole affair and for the hundreds of working men and women who lost their serenity and hope to secure decent work and sustainable that is not related to changes in earnings in investors than to suffer the disgrace of expulsion from unreasonable perpretata cutter heads turn.
As we have written in recent days "out of this crisis is not only the airport and infrastructure, "we suggest a Marshall Plan for sanitation of the area: there are no antisimiche schools, public buildings to be restored, historic centers to be recovered, so work many companies in our territory.
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