We receive and publish a note from Fabrizio Caliolo, provincial coordinator of Uil Brindisi
Interventions in the press on the crisis in Brindisi’s industrial sector have been constant for some time on the part of the most diverse and varied social actors: associations, category representatives, trade union organisations, grassroots movements. An attention that on the part of the Union began many years ago, in unsuspecting times, and which today finds awareness on the part of a large part of the territory; first of all the hundreds of families who risk no longer having a livelihood because within a few years their plant is no longer considered suitable or economically convenient by this or that other industrial group.
In this whole movement, which seeks to analyze and imagine solutions for a serious situation that would have serious repercussions on the entire economic cycle of the Brindisi area and Puglia, the great absentee is politics. The institutional representatives – local and national, regional and provincial – are essentially not there on the topic of Industry, they decide to turn their attention to completely different topics and even when forced by the dispute of the moment they are not convincing as they almost never indicate a vision clear, a precise and long-term path, a path to follow to achieve Brindisi in a transition that leaves no one behind.
For these reasons, the most urgent, as well as the most sensible, choice for the protection of the industrial system of Brindisi and its workers is the appointment by the government of an extraordinary commissioner for the industrial emergency in Brindisi. Only a figure external to the political and institutional representatives could have the clarity and skills necessary to indicate useful solutions for the Brindisi industry. It goes without saying that there cannot be a commissioner unless there is a special law for Brindisi.
Uil considers the appointment of an extraordinary commissioner and the establishment of a special law for the Brindisi industry as necessary conditions to get out of a political-decision-making impasse which is embarrassing due to the absence of suitable proposals and solutions. For the national government, these measures would be a clear, minimal and due signal to the Brindisi area which in a few days will be at the center of every news as “Land of the G7” but which equally shortly, in a few weeks at most, will return to being that periphery of the Empire that no one seems to care about.
The Uil of Brindisi asks the relevant authorities to urgently evaluate the possibility of appointing an extraordinary commissioner for Industry in Brindisi and of a special law as a keystone for restarting as well as a sign of hope for thousands of direct workers and It is induced that for months they have been living in total uncertainty.
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