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The deadline ends on Monday, November 30. As required by the agreement between ArcelorMittal and the ex Ilva Commissioners, in the absence of a new investment contract, the Franco-Indian group could have exercised the right to withdrawal paying one offender 500 million. But it will not be like this: as anticipated in recent days, the government intends to re-enter the capital from the Taranto steel company under extraordinary administration since 2012 and rented only two years ago. Will make it through Invitalia, arm of the Ministry of Economy directed by the same Domenico Arcuri meanwhile they participated on many other fronts in the role of special commissioner for the Covid emergency: the investment attraction agency will acquire 50% with the objective of having a role “of orientation me administration also from industrial options of the group ”, as it emerged during the last meeting with i unions. Which were summoned for Monday at 12 by the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano patuanelli.
The state will put it on the plate 400-450 million euros: for steel production, the gradual increase up to the threshold of 8 million tons per year, according to March agreements. This year, the Apulian steelworks should produce 3.2 million tons in total: the all-time low. In the new business plan, the objective, on paper, is theuse of the entire workforce. Today the group’s workers are 10,700, of which 8,200 in Taranto, where 3,300 are now on layoff and on November 16 another 6 weeks of Covid cash have been activated. The fear of unions is that they will have to accept a prepackaged plan, with deadlines for full employment carried over to 2025 and renewal until the bitter end of the cigar.
The announcement of the agreement should also remove the veil in other respects. There governance, for example, initially it will be equal to the president and CEO expressed one by Invitalia and the other by Mittal. But it will be necessary to clarify which are the powers that will be attributed. Then there are the investments expected, subject on which workers ask for clarity to understand the credibility of the project.
Of the capital of Apulia the mayor Rinaldo melucci he complains that he has not been informed of anything. “Whenever you hear, all in the same equation, about redo blast furnace, from full employment inside the steel mill, unknown government plans and even of environmental sustainability with coal, I feel alone made fun of, and certainly with me the majority of Taranto ”. According to him, the only way is “the evaluation of the damage to health, the complete decarbonizzazione or the closing of the hot zone, the retraining or the accompaniment of dismissals, remediation, including the physical withdrawal of the steelworks from the city and the port ”. What “do we want to do – asks the mayor – of the Recovery Plan or the South Plan in another way in this country? Everything else is inadmissible for Taranto and it will force us to one energetic resistance, at all institutional and non-institutional sites. I’m sure this is also the position of the province of Taranto and the Puglia region“.
Position similar to that of the environmental movement “Justice for Taranto” that asks “that the Region, Province, Municipality and parliamentarians of Taranto oppose, in a decided way and without more ambiguity, these intentions”. No more reverential fears regarding the dictates of the national Democratic Party, carried by Bank interest who are behind this disastrous operation ”. According to the association, “the Italian state absolutely needs money from a private partner to buy the shares to continue producing. Otherwise, there would be no way to reimburse the banks for the money invested. This is the reason why the closure of the factory and the rehabilitation of the territory are not even taken into account, although there is no longer even a reason to save it: not only environmental and health reasons, but also, as is now clear, economic and “. Producing” 8 million tons of steel per year – Giustizia concludes for Taranto – will mean producing more than the market needs, so this new agreement will constitute a new bubble destined to burst in the coming years, expanding the agony of our territory ”.
For the general secretary of the Fim Cisl, Roberto Benaglia, “The financial agreement that foresees the entry for now in an equal part and by 2022 in a majority participation of the Italian state is a useful base to give continuity to the production, keeping the ArcelorMittal group committed to the industrial strategies. But let us not forget – continues – that we are in this moment of worst year of group management in its history and to secure employment generic commitments won’t be enough“. For the Fim Cisl, guaranteeing employment will be the priority” and this can be achieved with industrial and commercial investments and not focusing on layoffs. “The meeting with Patuanelli” is late but we will present ourselves with good will, precisely to clarify the decisive commitments on investment and employment “.
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