(Finance) – At Palazzo Chigi the discussion table between the Government and the unions on the former Ilva of Taranto. Ministers present for the Government Ursus (Businesses), Cauldron (Work) and via video connection Giorgetti (Economy) in addition to the undersecretary to the presidency of the council Alfredo Mantua. For the labor unions representatives of Fim, Fiom, Uilm, Usb and Ugl metalworkers were present. A second meeting is also scheduled to follow trade associations (AIGI, Casartigiani Puglia, CNA Taranto, Confartigianato Puglia, Confapi Taranto, Confindustria Taranto, Fai/Conftrasporto, Federmanager) specific to the situation ofinduced.
According to what we learn, in the meeting with the unions on the former Ilva the Government announced that the decree interministerial for the bridging loan from 320 million euros for the management of the activities of Acciaierie d’Italia. Furthermore, in the next few hours they will be transferred 150 million from Ilva in extraordinary administration to the commissioners of Acciaierie d’Italia for the maintenance of the plants.
THE labor unions they were then informed that the industrial plan by the commissioners of Steel mills of Italy. The Government also said it was ready to intervene to implement new measures on social safety nets, in addition to those already planned and active, both for the former Ilva and for related industries, should the need arise.
In the afternoon the minister Ursus he had declared that this evening’s meeting would serve to “take stock of the road we have already travelled, with the full consensus of all the institutional actors and also of the workers’ and companies’ representatives, and what we intend to do to reach to a positive solution: the protection of the plants and then the assignment of them, so that we can return to talking about Italy’s great steel system”.
“Today’s meeting is fundamental for us to understand what resources the Government is putting in place to restart the whole machine”, declared the leader of the FIM, Ferdinand Ulian, before entering Palazzo Chigi. “Today the plants are really running at a minimum – he added – and if we go at this rate we won’t even reach last year’s production. The element we have in the comparison with the Government is the 320 million that must be made available”.
Fiom’s number one, Michele De Palmahe instead recalled that “we have commissioners appointed very recently and I also believe there are main characteristics regarding the expectations with respect to the tender: continuing to guarantee that there is public presence. Then it is necessary to guarantee full employment of all workers, because errors and management disasters cannot be paid for by the workers and citizens of the places where the factories are located. It is necessary that any announcement made by the government also guarantees investments in the transition from an environmental point of view”.
Finally, the general secretary of Uilm, Rocco Palombellahe added that “the resources have not arrived, the 150 million euros of the extraordinary administration have not arrived and the 320 million that the government had promised and planned have not arrived. And without the resources it is inevitable that the situation will continue to remain dramatic, the plants are in a dramatic situation”.