(Finance) – The Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo bearconvened i labor unions category for Thursday 17 November, at 12, to discuss the dispute of the former Ilva of Taranto. Fim, Fiom, Uilm, Ugl metalworkers and Usb were summoned to the meeting. On the same day Urso will also meet the governor of Puglia, Michele Emilian. The minister then responded to the request of the labor unions who asked for a meeting with the government, letting it be known, through a note released by the ministry, that they expected in any case at tomorrow’s meeting of the board of directors of Acciaierie d’Italia “concrete answers for related industries and for workers in the face of a decision that rightly aroused bewilderment, especially for the way in which it was announced, absolutely unacceptable”.
The decision referred to by the minister is that of Italian steelworks to suspend the operation of 145 businesses. “It causes great concern and, in full respect of corporate autonomy, Confindustria, Confindustria Puglia and Confindustria Taranto hope that a solution will be identified as soon as possible in the interest of workers and the vast chain of supplier companies, avoiding serious repercussions on the fabric of Taranto and Puglia”, the employers’ associations had declared in a note.
The ministry made it known that nothing had been announced by the company in the meetings that the minister himself had had in recent days with the CEO and president of Acciaierie d’Italia, as well as with the public shareholder, precisely in order to address the problems of the ‘company also in reference to resources public already intended and for new ones measures just resolved, such as those relating to gas companies, in the framework of a program that gives absolute certainty on the reconversion productive and ecological aspects of the company and therefore on the future of the largest steel mill in Europe.
“After the inauguration of the new government, one of the first dossiers that we need to get our hands on, as Minister Urso himself had clearly pointed out the day after his appointment, is that of Acciaierie D’Italia – declared the leader of the fim, Robert Benaglia – the mother of our country’s disputes has been dragging on for too many years now, over 10, without any of the governments, of any political affiliation, having managed to give a positive and decisive response to the dispute in terms of industry, employment or environmentalisation”.