The noise of machinery, the shirts bathed by the sweat and smile of those who know they have done it: after 56 days of garrison, the workers and workers of the Minox of Minervino Murge, in the Northern Bari area, returned to work. They had camped before the company that creates stainless steel food containers, to oppose the sentence issued by the Court of Lamezia Terme, where there is another branch of the company. An uninterrupted production for 30 years and then, on May 18, the bankruptcy sentence triggered the provisional exercise that last June 20 resulted in an injunction injunction. And so, with crossed arms, 25 workers remained in Puglia and 12 others in Calabria.
Today everyone has returned to their workstations. “It was exciting to go back to work: we are really happy,” says Vincenzo Copeta who was the spokesman for colleagues in the darkest moments. “We have been three months without salary, without any protection – he adds – we hope that the separt table in the region will give us a hand to recover the lost sums”. “We all arrived on time, each to their own locker, with his shirt: as if nothing had happened,” he underlines. In the shed of the outskirts of the country, the production was stopped only for the time of a blessing, given by Don Peppino Balice, parish priest of the church dedicated to the Madonna del Sabato. “The resumption of production” is a great gift, which makes dignity and justice to those who work for their families and for the community of Minervino “, comments Lalla Mancini, mayor of Minervino.