"Husqvarna is a case of looting industrial"After the shock announcement of KTM to cease the activity, the two hundred workers in the company that produces bikes have made a trade union meeting outdoors. Cartosio (Fiom): "The aim is to empty this company, the property remains the area real estate and especially a prestigious brand»
| Print | Send | Write Photo Gallery"The Germans have given away to the Austrians and they fired us." The worker Delepine summed up the situation that she and other 211 workers are experiencing these days, after the announcement of KTM to ask for the extraordinary layoff for discontinued operations. One year social safety net, which will start at the end of May, and then all at home definitivamene and the plant that produced motorcycles from 1999 to Cassinetta Biandronno will remain just a point of sale which will occupy about thirty people. This is the perspective because at the moment there is no plan, to confirm are the same unions.The question that you make workers gathered at the meeting at the gates company is always the same: because the KTM bought on 11 March by the Bmw company that kept losing the past three years or so, and then close it so suddenly? "It's a case of looting industrial - says Nino Cartosio Fiom CGIL -. The goal is to empty this company, the property remains the area real estate and especially a prestigious brand. It is also highly likely, s andnot we have no certainty, that BMW has also left a few million Euros. "The Ktm with the operation Husqvarna acquires a slice of the market that was previously a competitor, but this is not sufficient to explain the latest maneuvers of the property. Cartosio door as an example the case MVAgusta: "When there was the passage by Harley Davidson, the group Castiglioni - says the union - has been done a great job of restoration because that company lost 30 million Euros a year." In short, the new property Delepine not interested in reviving the company, despite the establishment of Cassinetta Biandronno are a gem."There is a structural problem - adds Flavio Cervellino, the FIM CISL -. In the warehouses there are 12 thousand bikes in stock is clear that there is a problem with the product, but the plot there is a willingness to make investments in research and development and therefore do not evaluate alternative solutions to the disposal of assets. "The Husqvarna has several problems that the financial statements show so merciless: € 128 million loss in 2010, € 30 million in 2011 and € 34 million in 2012. But a result so disastrous is not linked only to the product on the market that do not attechisce. "In this company - said Cartosio - in consulting you spend twice that for the entire remuneration of workers." Too bad that the Husqvarna is not a consulting company.Another chapter supplies are disastrous. Before the advent of the Germans from BMW the majority of suppliers were Italians, at least 80%, companies located along the foothills. "With the introduction of modeli road - said Fabio Murazzi, assigned to orders and delegated Fiom - the supplies have moved out of Italy, especially in favor of Germans and Austrians. Buy some simple screws abroad becomes a more cost and so for all the pieces. In addition, BMW made us mount the engines of Kymco Taiwan company for not paying fines, then we have for the group represented a cost savings arising from other companies. "
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