Sixty meters high, on top of a silo, protesting against Glencore. Rino Barca, Roberto Forresu and Daniela Piras, provincial secretaries of Fim, Fiom and Uil barricaded themselves on the structure located in the Alcoa di Portovesme plant, in the province of Carbonia-Iglesias, to make their voices heard by the Swiss multinational Glencore, which would like take over the plants with very advantageous energy price concessions.
According to Brussels, the discounts could be considered state aid and the authorization only came for 3 years and not for the 10 requested by the Swiss. In the meantime, however, the industry has been completely at a standstill for four years.
At 3 o'clock tonight therefore, the three trade unionists decided to make the sensational gesture. The national secretary of the Fim – Cisl, Marco Bentivogli, intervened to explain the reasons: «The constant postponements of Glencore, Alcoa which does not allow alternatives to new investors. The Sulcis Plan at a standstill. For the workers there is only the desperation of seeing the plant closed and the end of social safety nets and any income for hundreds of families. We said it, if someone thinks of dividing or of having the workers' surrender without solutions, they have miscalculated ».
At 11 this morning the Minister of Economic Development Federica Guidi requested a response from Glencore and assured the maximum commitment «of the Government to give prospects to the Alcoa of Portovesme is not only confirmed, but will continue until the identification of a solution that gives concrete responses to the employment and development needs of the territory involved".
