Electrolux signs agreement with Ikea: new hires in September
Forlì, August 10, 2025 – The Electrolux plant on Viale Bologna in Villanova plans to hire 40-45 temporary workers starting in September to cope with a production peak related to a major Ikea order. The group's acquisition of the Swedish giant as a customer has consolidated over the years, both for the supply of household appliances and for the furnishing of Ikea restaurants.
As is well known, Ikea is a multinational company operating in the furniture, home accessories, and household goods sector. However, about seven years ago, it chose Whirlpool as its partner, selling approximately 100,000 built-in refrigerators and thousands of dishwashers and cooktops to the Electrolux group. The latter, in particular, are the main specialty of the Forlì site.
Now, however, the Viale Bologna plant, after a long period marked by declining volumes and the use of unemployment benefits, is seeing the first positive signs.
The announcement was made in a statement by the Fiom-CGIL union (it was impossible to obtain further details from the company): given the need to produce for Ikea, it will even be necessary to hire additional staff at the end of the summer. According to worker representatives, the company itself announced the news at a meeting held a few days ago.
"Although this is a temporary peak and not a structural recovery," explains a note from the Fiom Cgil union representative body, "this prospect allows us to postpone, at least for now, the use of redundancy funds and solidarity contracts."
However, the unions are asking the company to give priority to temporary workers who have previously worked at Electrolux and are available to return. "Another crucial point concerns the training of new hires," the RSU specifies. "We need to ensure an adequate learning path, beneficial not only for workers, but also for product quality and safety, a key issue in a workplace where accidents are commonplace." The issue of the microclimate in the departments also remains open, where in some cases temperatures exceed 40 degrees, making the work strenuous.
"While the numbers are encouraging," says Fiom-CGIL RSU delegate Filippo Liverini , "the positive effects must translate into concrete actions to protect employees: from recalling already trained workers to more responsible management of the microclimate and training, to greater attention to working conditions across all departments."
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