There is no progress, but hope. The Principality averred that “business case” for the multinational Perfetti Van Melle factory closure Chupa Chups Piloña. At least, so said yesterday the Minister of Industry, Graciano Torre, following a meeting held in Oviedo with the works of Villamayor factory to learn about the possibilities of preventing the Record of Employment Regulation (ERE) introduced recently as few weeks. Although the counselor qualified their statements: “There seems no good reason as the documents submitted by the company, not to substantiate its position.” However, the position of the multinational has been to date in stone. The plant that gave birth to lollipop lower your blinds on 1 September and 122 permanent employees, plus another hundred eventually, will go to the street. Many have to turn the tables so that does not happen that way. 
“The workers have demanded that I look closely at the ERE,” said the adviser, who promised “to examine with great care” every point because “if there is no reason we must refuse it.” For now the trick will be defending that “legally we ‘and the first impressions as the game is in favor of workers. “We agree, each in our position, which will exercise all possible actions with a view to keep you from leaving a plant in Asturias if no business case” for doing so. 
That is the position to defend the three political parties represented in Parliament of Asturias. Workers, meanwhile, will continue on the same line of demonstrations and protests as a concentration in the town of Villamayor, overlapping, albeit with the meetings that workers have had with the directors of the company. Although these meetings do not involve any kind of progress. Were initiated under the guise of negotiation, but to date there has been no real progress because neither party moved from its initial position. The multinational company has refused to even raise doubts regarding the closure. Workers do not want to hear from transfer of workers to the plant in Barcelona Chupa Chups has to cling to the viability of Villamayor as a profitable factory. At that point it all started and at this point continued negotiations between workers and business. Now, the Principality must also play their part in the play. 
Once formally presented to the Ministry ERE “we set up the mechanism, if any, to recover the subsidies” received by the multinational over recent years. But before that, Torre recalled, “the company moved to our political opposition and frontal movement and closure of the plant Villamayor,” to return, the Minister reiterated, “offered a partnership to keep it open and without layoffs. 
And that was what the Minister of Industry moved to piloñesa factory workers during the meeting. In fact, nothing new. However, the president of the council, Ovid Solares, is “hopeful” because, in his view, “we leave with the conviction that the report will look at his fingertips the ERE” and it may be supported to deny the multinational plant closure Chupa Chups. Because the view of Sun and ‘according to our economists, who defends the company infeasibility is not supported in the documentation “so that” we hope that the decision be taken from the Principality on the same line and is more correct in this subject. “ 
But in addition to relying on the ERE to curb the intentions of the multinational, the workers see a possibility to refuse the position “in the subsidies received.” However, Sun said, “have not yet quantified, and the counselor said that some aid had still had loads.” In any case, “the Minister pointed out that we will do everything possible from the three parties, everything in its power to stop this injustice,” Solar detailed. For now, “we are not satisfied that the Principality and the company are held any meetings, we prefer to let them work, to follow the best lines because we are sure they will not allow it to continue marching companies of Asturias.” 
And as workers leave the politicians to manage the situation to institutional mode, the works council continues its schedule of demonstrations supported by the workers. In this regard Torre gave them a call. At the last meeting “there was an altercation with coaches who came to negotiate on the part of the company-in addition to eggs thrown at cars, broke windows,” recalled the director. Therefore, “I urged the workers to try to avoid such behavior.” And is that, for whatever reason put forward by the workers, loses force if violence becomes part of the claims. They noted that while street workers were already mobilized.