“We consider the statements of those who, resigning from the municipal council, speak of ‘certain unions’ informed by the workers of illegality and who however do not want to see and intervene to be serious and unfounded.” Thus CGIL and FIOM of Terni in reference to the declarations of the former councilor Mascia Aniello regarding the activity of the steelworks.
Aniello The union rather claims a constant commitment throughout the province of Terni, to build good employment and sustainable development environmentally, socially and economically. «Specifically – they highlight from via San Procolo – in Ast agreements have been produced over time that have linked the health and safety of workers with the living conditions of the citizens who live around the factory. The agreements produced have never exchanged wages for health and safety, just look at the history of our platforms which have always started from investments in the environment and safety, achieving over the years the insulation of the systems, but also the individual hoods , the vacuum cleaners, filters and PPE that are taken for granted today.”
Fiom and CGIL «We have done ‘schooling’ – claim Fiom and CGIL – with Mesop, the social and preventive medicine service already at the beginning of the 70s. Unless we want to take into consideration lunar proposals such as moving the Viale Brin site elsewhere – which represents 1/3 of the city’s plan – we must necessarily be, today
more than ever, an active part in strengthening that unwritten pact between the environment and work in this area, also given the technological and ecological transitions we are going through.
From this point of view we consider the meeting that the Mayor of Terni asked of the trade unions to be self-referential. The Mayor and his council are not an investigative body, but must represent the needs of citizens, also through the involvement of social representatives to provide the necessary responses.”
Security protocol We remind you that among the valuable agreements, which the entire union has strongly supported, since 2008 there has been the ‘Health, environment and safety protocol in Ast’ which, in addition to the company and the trade union organizations and confederals, is was signed by the Prefect, the Region of Umbria, the Province of Terni, the Municipality of Terni, the Fire Brigade, the Territorial Labor Inspectorate, the USL Umbria2, the Inail and the Arpa. All bodies that monitor and sanction illegalities in terms of the environment, health and safety. In detail, Arpa constantly monitors the state of water, soil and air through control units in relation to the production of Acciai Speciali Terni. Does anyone have any more data? We ask those who speak of illegality to clarify what they mean and who they are referring to when they indicate ‘some informed unions’. Otherwise we would be forced to take legal action to defend the good work and honorability of the confederation and the category in the interests of the workers we represent.”
Terni steelworks «Curious – the trade unionists then comment – that the meeting of 17 June 2024 was the first after those skipped due to the resignation of the mayor and the celebrations of International Women’s Day. As CGIL and as Fiom we responded to the mayor, when asked specifically, that if we had news of a crime we would immediately inform the competent bodies. Perhaps illegality is being confused with critical issues, which obviously exist, are significant and which we have never ignored inside and outside the site. Of course there is still a lot to do on dust, heat, noise and work organisation, but these are the daily issues that the Fiom delegates and RLS discuss, in close contact with the trade union safety representative for the entire site , also stopping the plants when it became necessary. Instead of sterile party controversies, efforts should be made to put an end to this worrying phase of stalemate on the program agreement in order to be able to ground the industrial plan which envisages approximately 85,000,000 euros of investments linked to the environment, as well as aiming to a decisive decarbonisation.
