TARANTO – The general secretaries of Fim, Fiom and Uilm have sent a request for an urgent meeting to the President of the Council Giorgia Meloni, to the undersecretary Mantovano and to the ministers Urso, Giorgetti, Fitto and Calderone «due to the worsening of the social and industrial conditions in the absence of a long-term recovery perspective» on the Ex Ilva.
The union acronyms make this known.
“We reiterate clearly that for Usb the starting point for any comparison on the numbers, starts from the industrial plan and the maximum protections for workers”. This is stated by Francesco Rizzo and Sasha Colautti of the Usb Confederal Executive a few hours after the meeting convened at the Ministry of Labor for the joint examination of the request for redundancy payments for 5,200 workers of Acciaierie d’Italia in As presented by the company on June 20th.
«We are on the eve of a discussion – underlined – in which we should really address, through a frank dialogue, the issue of the unsustainable number of workers for whom redundancy payments are requested. It is worth remembering that, in Taranto as in the Ligurian capital, the workforce exceeds 50%. The fear is that instead the trade union organisations, who are also called to the table, will simply be invited to receive communications relating to decisions already taken”.
For Rizzo and Colautti «if this were the case, tomorrow’s meeting would demonstrate that choices are being made without a real discussion with those who represent the workers, and this means that the cost of what, at this point, is a pseudo-relaunch , would fall on the workers.”
If, they conclude, “we are thinking of relaunching the company, leaving 5,000 people at home, it means that the government has no idea of the social and economic weight of this choice, which would certainly generate a disaster worse than that of Alitalia.”
