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"We are ready to leave Mirafiori." Corriere della Sera’s front-page cites a warning from Fiat CEO, Sergio Marchionne, who insists he is ready to close the company’s historic production plant at Mirafiori, near Turin, if its 5,500 staff reject an agreement to modify working conditions in a ballot scheduled for the 13 and 14 January. Corriere explains that the agreement, approved by most of the unions at the end of December, will introduce more flexible working hours in exchange for the investment of more than one billion euros in the plant. The metal workers union (Fiom), which opposes the change, has accused Fiat of being anti-union and resorting to blackmail after excluding organisations that refused to sign up to a similar deal at the plant in Pomigliano d’Arco.
