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For dozens of factory workers and employees Pfizer by Ascoli Piceno next time it won’t be a merry Christmas. The US pharmaceutical company, among the world’s leading drug research, production and marketing companies, is in fact on the verge of walk away in the coming weeks at least 17 workers hired in personnel leasing by companies Ranstad and Adeccowhile another 43 could lose their jobs in the course of 2021. “Delete “and not” discard “, since these men and women are formal employees of the two “work agency” companies, with a permanent contract.
An anti-Covid drug is also produced at Pfizer’s Ascoli Piceno plant
Although Pfizer was the first company to commercialize the Covid-19 vaccine in Europe, where it has already been purchased 200 million doses at a price of € 15.50 a dose even before the approval of the EMA, and despite the fact that the prices of the bag have taken off a few weeks ago, it seems that there is no more room for about sixty workers and employees of the production plant in Ascoli Piceno, specialized in production . of anti-inflammatory, oncological and central nervous system tablets and capsules and a antiviral used in the treatment of Covid. The factory in the Marche region is, by the company itself, “one of Pfizer’s top key suppliers “. Many of the drugs developed in the plant are distributed throughout the world: in more than 164,000 square meters an anticancer for gastrointestinal stromal tract cancer and kidney cancer of international importance is produced. “The Ascoli Piceno site – explains Pfizer – serves more than 100 markets. The largest segment is the European (29%) which, however, does not include the Italian (plus 17%). Then there are the Ceer markets ( Central and Eastern European Region, 14%), Asia (20%), America (4%), Afme (Africa and Middle East, 6%), USA (9%) “. In short, the Ascoli Piceno factory is considered of fundamental importance for the production of drugs for use against diseases that, like all others, have certainly not disappeared due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pfizer sends 60 workers home (but pays for soup kitchen)
How is it possible, therefore, that a company that in 2019 had a turnover more than 51 billion dollars prepares to terminate 60 employment contracts, meanwhile announce the donation of 150 meals for the poor of Ascoli Piceno? Overheard by Fanpage.it, Pfizer explained that due to the pandemic there has been a drop in drug production at the factory in the Marche region: “We clarified immediately and transparently, during meetings with the unions, that in leasing of staff, being related to specific needs and production volumes, would have had a limited duration in time. In 2021, due to a reduction of around 25% in production volumes compared to the previous year, the site, in at this time, it will no longer make use of the contribution of 17 leasing workers (workers and dependents), potentially reaching a maximum of 60 seasonal workers. This figure will depend on the evolution of product demand during the year.
CGIL: “We are ready to mobilize”
For Daniele Lanni, provincial director of Nidil-Cgil, the category of the union that represents temporary workers, that of the American multinational is a very worrying choice: “Fifteen workers – he explains to Fanpage.it – have already been withdrawn from the production plant in Ascoli Piceno: all have an indefinite contract that links them to the management companies Ranstad and Adecco, where they will receive an availability allowance of 800 euros per month while waiting to be relocated; if this does not happen, they will be fired. ”Lanni adds:” We believe there were other ways ; Pfizer has already planned several retirements for 2021 and could open a hiring window. Furthermore, we believe that it makes no sense to consider each plant as a separate compartment for a multinational that has sites. productive worldwide. ”Ultimately, for CGIL, once again it will be the workers who pay, despite the enormous efforts made during the pandemic to ensure production from the Ascoli site.
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