Bakers in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Bakers in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Unlimited support from small businesses that produce bread, to face foreign competition and the economic crisis: Joint notice. Signed by Unione regionale bakers and white art workers of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the regional representations of Fai Cisl, Uila Cgil and Uil Flai

For 450 companies employing 2,500 people for the production of bread and 1,500 others in related industries (from raw material sales) was entered into an arrangement which has the following objectives: the establishment of a bilateral Institution for the protection and development of the sector; the creation of a regional contract shared platform that integrates the national contract work; the establishment of a regional observatory which propose improvements for entrepreneurship.

The reason for this arrangement, called "common Opinion", is quickly told: the crisis and the competition resulted in a reduction of 24% of companies in the sector and whether or not you run for cover the bleeding could continue. The competition is mainly due to the foreign origin of frozen bread which is sold in supermarkets which make cooking and sell it as hot as it was just baked.

The Union's President, Edwin Jerian regional bakers, during the presentation of the notice said "it is a historical document because it combines for the first time, the representative bodies of employers and those of employees of enterprises, with the aim of presenting to the Government the Friuli Venezia Giulia the concern of all operators for the crisis in our industry".

For its part the local councillor regionale alle attività produttive, Federica Seganti, said that the region is on the side of the bakers, so much so that within the reform bill, craft was inserted a discipline appropriate to the baking industry. A clear distinction should be between frozen bread and fresh bread in order "to preserve and enhance the work of bakers for

defend a product that is an integral part and healthy of our daily lives ".

Another of the aims of the common understanding is that of finding a common path to program training initiatives.

In short, a step forward to help that group of undertakings which, as War of the UIL, Margeret "continue among many difficulties to produce fresh bread".