Unions Draw Attention to Roberto Cavalli’s Future

MILAN — Who will invest in Roberto Cavalli and how? These questions sparked unions Filctem Cgil and Femca Cisl to issue a note on Friday to express concern about the future of the company’s workers and the production sites in Sesto Fiorentino, outside Florence, and Milan. “Over the past few years, we’ve seen a strong restructuring and the closure of stores, changes in ownership, designers and managers, and we are worried about the future of the employees,” Mirko Zacchei, member of trade union Cisl, told WWD. “We’ve been asking for a meeting with the owners [investment fund Clessidra SGR], but it’s been pushed back again and again and there is a cloud of mystery that is incredible. Now we’ve been asked us to wait until a board meeting to be held on March 13 — unless that is postponed, too.” Zacchei said the brand remains “strong” and the unions know there is interest in buying the company, but the unions are asking to be informed about possible future industrial plans. “We don’t want to see the company being split up. The idea was to leave Sesto Fiorentino and move to the center of Florence, which would mean losing the production platform, and this

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