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FLORENCE – Smoke more black than grey yesterday in the meeting between the former GKN workers, the trade unions and the Tuscan governor Eugenio Gianiconvened after the pressing requests of the workers of the factory collective – three of whom have now reached the eighth day of hunger strike – to discuss the issue of the approval of a regional law that establishes a public consortium capable of proposing as a possible direct interlocutor in reindustrialisation. A “very interlocutory” meeting Dario Salvetti of the Fabbrica Collective explains this morning to Novaradio: “We are waiting for the regional council to explain what it thinks, Some technical objections have been raised to the law which in our opinion do not exist“. “To say that a national law is needed, that the capital of the cooperative can be strengthened, that the Municipality can also do its part – highlights Salvetti – even a child understands is to belittle the role of the Region and throw the ball into another field”.
“We seem to be able to summarize – he continues – that the spirit is shared, the council is wondering about the tools to achieve public availability of the plant. We ask to move forward with the regional law, and to act quickly. We were under no illusion that a hunger strike would induce someone to change their position, if they have to tell us something, let them tell us, but we believe that this tool serves to measure together the days and the ways in which politics deals with problems: postponing, postponing, and in the meantime 33 months have passed” underlines Salvetti. this is why he adds: “Let’s move forward, even with the hunger strike we continue.”
Meanwhile, a Bandabardò concert in solidarity with the protest is scheduled for tomorrow, June 12, at the workers’ garrison in Piazza Indipendenza. Appointment with music at 9.00 pm, preceded at 7.30 pm by an update on the dispute.
