storm in Guzzini (Confindustria Macerata)

Published on: 12/15/2020 11:13 AM

“Even if someone dies, it doesn’t matter.” The words of the president of Confindustria Macerata, Domenico Guzzini, bounce online and generate controversy. Guzzini spoke yesterday at the ‘Made For Italy for Fashion’ event. “We have a very lean Christmas ahead of us, they are thinking of tightening it even more. That means blocking a retail that was getting up for the second time from the crisis and they are bringing it back to its knees. They would like to get out of there. Even if someone dies, it does not matter. Then it becomes an impossible situation, impossible for everyone “, his words that animate the discussion on Twitter and project the issue among the trends.

In the early afternoon today Guzzini’s apologies in a note: “Sincerely – he writes – I apologize to everyone and in particular to the families moved by the Covid drama, for the phrase I pronounced yesterday during the Made For Italy Forum. I was wrong in the content and in the ways. I was talking about the life of the company and job prospects and instead, taken from the discussion, I made a wrong statement, which does not represent my thinking or that of the Association I represent. ”Guzzini, acknowledges in the note that he was” completely wrong. “

“I am very saddened by my statement that when I listened again, I realized how serious and distant it was from what I think, which is that the most important good in the life of each of us is health and family ”, He concludes.

PRESIDENT OF CONFINDUSTRIA MARCHE – “I have not heard from Domenico Guzzini yet. From how I know him, it immediately seemed strange to me that he said this phrase. Also because when the Covid emergency broke out in March he was one of the most active in initiating all the measures to put I think that apologies are at least a duty, especially at this time, when there are sick people who are suffering, and especially because it seems that the concept that profit comes first is happening: health comes first, people and collaborators comes first, the well-being of all comes first, and then comes the benefit “Thus, with Adnkronos / Labitalia, president of Confindustria Marche, Claudio Schiavoni, comments on the story that featured the president of Confindustria Macerata.

“I worked and collaborated with him very closely between March and April – Schiavoni reiterates again – on the occasion of the first wave and I saw a person who was very concerned and very attentive to the health of his collaborators. It doesn’t seem like someone to me. he says ‘who cares,’ ”he continues.

And for the president of the industrialists of the Brands, “in moments like these, it cannot be expected that the benefits of the company outweigh the health problems that people may have”. Although, at the same time, Schiavoni emphasizes, “it is also true that we are all in a time of great difficulty.”

“I do not apologize for Guzzini’s statements, but I say that today even entrepreneurs are under stress because, in any case, we are in the car, we are doing everything and more to keep our companies on their feet and therefore, I repeat, no we justify these “. Words, I say that in moments of tension you can also say things that are not thought, perhaps even taken by the heat or inserted in another speech, “he reiterates.

Certainly the profit logic, Schiavoni emphasizes, is not the one that drives most companies at the moment. “A large part of entrepreneurs – he explains – do not think like that. And we are demonstrating it from March until today and it is no coincidence that the jobs are the safest, where people are more controlled, with masks and Plexiglas, temperature measurement, sanitizing gel. We did everything necessary to assemble, assuming considerable costs. And therefore, let’s not pass the concept that the entrepreneur seeks to profit at the expense of people’s health. Absolutely not, in the absolutely ”, he concludes.