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“The factory is collapsing. Personnel cuts and ordinary and extraordinary maintenance and without certainty of the future. The workers of the old Ilva de Taranto sit idly by: today the sheet metal production department paralyzes, on Monday the cold rolling mill. The Fim, Fiom and Uilm strike is just the beginning of a series of mobilizations. In the last hours the news has arrived of the stop of the sheet metal train from September 11. It will only get back on the road if there are enough orders.
The climate is tense and negotiations between the government and ArcelorMittal, which runs Europe’s largest steel plant in Puglia, come to a halt. «Without an industrial plan – Antonio Talò de la Uilm provincial announces – we will evaluate whether to ask for a stop of the plants. No discounts on safety: every day we are risking the safety of workers.
Fiom also lasts with Giuseppe Romano: “On the one hand, the company says it wants to reestablish union relations, on the other, it moves unilaterally, as in the organization of work and technological personnel that is the reason for the strike. Meanwhile, there are those who turn to the Prime Minister. Giuseppe is an Ilva worker in an extraordinary administration: he has a wife, a 3-year-old boy and cancer. «I am not writing to ask you for money – he says in the letter to Conte – but only my work. What gives me dignity, article 1 of the Italian Constitution. In a few lines, it tells its story. «I am faced with a rare tumor, I took the path of experimentation. I consider the Italian health system to be excellent, but despite being free, between trips, visits and reservations, I have already wasted 23,760 euros on savings and personal help ». And he would like to wear his blue jumpsuit again.
More than 8 thousand direct employees, 4 thousand related companies are also waiting for answers. Contractors anticipate payment of overdue invoices worth millions of euros. To manage this parallel dispute, the Undersecretary of the Prime Minister Mario Turco has announced a control room starting next Friday..
