Ex Ilva, 8 workers’ cars burned at night. A torpedo tank derails. Unions: “Extremely Sick and Badly Maintained”

Otto car fire in parking, a car-catfish derailed and the mayor’s hard attack Rinaldo melucci ad ArcelorMittal. The tension grows insideex Ilva of Taranto, after a delicate week between face to face of the ad Lucia Morselli with me unions and the announcement of the extension of layoffs for Covid-19. At 2 p.m. between Friday and Saturday, in the square destined to parking near the business reception, 8 cars owned by contract company employees, including one of USB delegate – are on fire.

End Cisl, Fiom Cgil, Uilm Uil and USB that have sent a report to Prefecture, to Police headquarters and to ASL for Taranto in which they remember that they have already highlighted the August 28 me to damage widespread and fires that affected cars parked in front of the janitor and asking for a meeting table “No longer possible.” Few doubts about malicious nature of the gesture, which tells merough weather living inside the steel mill, as the unions point out, underlining the “Very strong discomfort” and “shortage of thousands of workers.” It is “real”, say workers’ representatives, the risk that “theexasperation you begin to overcome despair ”. The parking area, the unions point out, “is especially distinguished by its literalness abandonment “.

A few hours later, a new accident occurred at the factory: a torpedo tank derailed in cast mof, in Acciaieria 2. The “medium” generally contains incandescent cast iron. “This is not the first episode of this type – reports the Usb – At the base there is, depending on the case, the failure of the carpentry, the joints or therail wear on which torpedo cars run ”. Wagons that, the union explains, are “Few and exhausted”. “Good luck was back on our side this time. Imagine the consequences if there were cast iron at very high temperatures in the torpedo tank ”, they emphasize. The cause of the accident, continues the Usb, “certainly the lack of maintenance he investments in almost absent systems “.

The mayor of Taranto Melucci in the last hours, after the news of the extension of the layoffs for more than 8 employees, had attacked during the company: “We sow in the city every good day economy, they with the excuse of Covid-19 continue impoverish the lives of Taranto. “According to the mayor,” this is the answer to what the government should do with the negotiated ex Ilva. “Translated:” A word for this umpteenth letter from ArcelorMittal: shame. Or rather two: go away ”. Speaking at the Festa del Fatto Quotidiano, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, when asked about the possibility of a farewell to Mittal, said: “We have a industrial partner that must respect commitments. If there is aescape strategy, it will go yes but paying the sanctions. If ArcelorMittal disappears, it won’t be free ”.