MILAN — Adidas Italy faced a strike just ahead of the busy Christmas period.
A group of the company’s employees from Adidas’ Italian headquarters in Monza, Lombardy, protested on Wednesday, organizing a four-hour sit-in in front of the brand’s store in Milan’s central shopping thoroughfare Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.
The protest was sparked by news last week that 41 Adidas Italy workers would be let go due to a reorganization of the company’s European workforce affecting 500 employees. Of them 35 are based in Monza, four in Rome and two in Padua, in the Veneto region.
Reached on the phone, Matteo Moretti, general secretary of the trade union Filcams-Cgil Monza Brianza, said: “Adidas is a company with billions in revenues and according to a recent internal note 2019 should represent a ‘record year.’ This clashes with the company’s decision to reorganize its workforce.” He added the company hasn’t considered social security measures.
According to the trade union, Adidas is relocating some of its functions, including credit, finance, marketing and supply chain, to Porto, Portugal. “This is called delocalization and we’re stating that [the company] should deal with its workforce with a solidarity approach, at least at a European level.”
Adidas’ corporate headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany,
A group of the company’s employees from Adidas’ Italian headquarters in Monza, Lombardy, protested on Wednesday, organizing a four-hour sit-in in front of the brand’s store in Milan’s central shopping thoroughfare Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.
The protest was sparked by news last week that 41 Adidas Italy workers would be let go due to a reorganization of the company’s European workforce affecting 500 employees. Of them 35 are based in Monza, four in Rome and two in Padua, in the Veneto region.
Reached on the phone, Matteo Moretti, general secretary of the trade union Filcams-Cgil Monza Brianza, said: “Adidas is a company with billions in revenues and according to a recent internal note 2019 should represent a ‘record year.’ This clashes with the company’s decision to reorganize its workforce.” He added the company hasn’t considered social security measures.
According to the trade union, Adidas is relocating some of its functions, including credit, finance, marketing and supply chain, to Porto, Portugal. “This is called delocalization and we’re stating that [the company] should deal with its workforce with a solidarity approach, at least at a European level.”
Adidas’ corporate headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany,