What will happen to the former Ilva
The intervention of Roberto Benaglia, general secretary of Fim Cisl, on the decision of the TAR of Lecce regarding the closure of the hot area of the former Ilva
We always respect every sentence of the judiciary as a union, and consistently with this, we have taken time to analyze the situation that it determines.
But the provisions of the TAR of Lecce regarding the closure within 60 days of the hot area of the Ex-Ilva of Taranto constitutes yet another legal reversal, a strong threat to the life of the plant and to the future of over 20 thousand families, just as we are discussing the new business plan.
The health of citizens, about which we are just as concerned as for the employment of employees, is not protected by eliminating problems.
Everyone should know that closing the hot area automatically means closing all cold processing operations, with serious repercussions on the other plants of the group. Taranto has the right to see production continue through a decisive and sustainable productive reconversion contained in the investments envisaged in the new industrial plan , at the center of discussions with the trade union.
Stopping the hot area means: bringing Taranto to its knees, and at the same time putting the future of the other plants of the group in Italy at risk; destroy the Italian steel production capacity at the very moment of strong recovery in demand; to put many Italian manufacturing industries in difficulty.
To those who invoke program agreements as the solution to aim for, we remind you that there is no credible and certain future for work in Taranto without the steel industry.
We ask the new Prime Minister Draghi, the Cingolani Ministers for Ecological Transition and Giorgetti for Economic Development, to whom we guarantee the utmost cooperation, to immediately convene all the parties and immediately take decisions and measures that do not bring the steel industry to its knees and that make it possible to make Taranto the main producer of "green steel" in Europe.
The union will not witness this serious uncertainty, for which the 10,700 employees and the many thousands of related workers risk paying the bill.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/che-cosa-succedera-allex-ilva/ on Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:05:09 +0000.