It is of 4.046 total workers the new request for extraordinary redundancy fund presented today in Taranto to the metalworkers' unions by Acciaierie d'Italia, former Ilva, with immediate effect. Compared to the current fund, 1.000 direct employees increase. And this is because of the fire last Wednesday at blast furnace 1 of the steelworks in Taranto, of the seizure of the plant without the right to use ordered by the Taranto Public Prosecutor's Office and above all, according to the company, of the delay with which the same Public Prosecutor's Office gave AdI the green light for the work to secure and safeguard the blast furnace itself. Delay reported by AdI
to the Public Prosecutor's Office and also underlined by the Minister of Enterprise, Adolfo Urso.
Ex Ilva: more than 4 thousand on redundancy pay
The new cash flow framework presented by Acciaierie, and which will be implemented in the next few hours, provides for the following distribution: 4.046 workers suspended temporarily: 3.538 in Taranto, 178 in Genoa, 163 in Novi Ligure, 26 in Marghera, 10 in Legnaro, 36 in Milan (offices), 15 in Paderno, 20 in Salerno e 15 in the associated company Taranto Energia which manages the steelworks' power plants. Currently, the agreement of March 4 at the Ministry of Labor between AdI and the unions has provided for a maximum of 3.062 workers on rotational redundancy payments in the group out of just under 10 employees, of which 2.680 in Taranto out of just under 8 workers. In reality, before Wednesday's fire, the redundancy payments were running at these numbers: 2.100-2.200 in Taranto, 150 in Genoa and 100-110 in Novi Ligure. Sources close to the dossier are reporting that "tomorrow the request for a joint examination of an even more robust redundancy payment will be sent to the Ministry of Labor".
The Human Resources Manager illustrated the company's decisions during a video conference meeting Claudio Picucci. For the national unions there were Valerio D'Alo of Fim Cisl, Loris Scarpa of Fiom Cgil, William Gambardella of Uilm e Francesco Rizzo ofUsb.
Ex Ilva, blast furnace stop: sale at risk
The Afo1 was seized as evidence without the right to use it in the context of the investigation conducted by the PM Francesco Ciardo which has entered the general manager Maurizio Saitta, the director of the plant, Benedetto Valli, and the director of the blast furnace area, Arcangelo De Biasi, in the register of suspects. The alleged crimes are willful omission of precautions in the workplace and dangerous throwing of objects. One of the suspects is also charged with failure to communicate in accordance with the Seveso law on relevant accidents.
The prosecutor's office then gave the green light to some maintenance and safety activities but according to the company "they were not authorised in a timely manner, making the standard execution procedures no longer applicable".
According to the company, "if they were to be authorised, today, more than 120 hours after the event, it is no longer possible to proceed with casting the spindles, with the consequence that, in the event of a restart, it will be necessary to adopt extraordinary, complex procedures with absolutely uncertain outcomes“. And “this block could have compromised the possibility of respecting the industrial timetable” The Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, also intervened yesterday, observing that “more than the negotiations in progress, the incident could compromise the recovery of the factories and employment. The plant is probably completely compromised”.
Ex Ilva: what Confindustria Taranto said
“What we all hoped for has failed: dialogue, listening and trust. The result is a a situation that is getting worse minute by minute and risks exploding, with very serious repercussions for the stability of the factory, the social climate and an entire industrial apparatus". Thus Salvatore Toma, President of Confindustria Taranto, comments on the situation created after the fire at blast furnace 1 of the former Ilva last Wednesday, which led to the seizure of the plant without the right to use it by the Taranto Public Prosecutor's Office.
Toma focuses on "the failure of the same Prosecutor's Office to respond to the request of the Adi commissioners to secure the AFO1 with urgent interventions. A step that would probably have avoided compromising the functionality and integrity of the plants, without prejudice to what was ordered by the judiciary, that is, the seizure of the blast furnace and its consequent stop to production".
The concern of Confindustria Taranto "is, among others, that of returning - it is underlined - to trigger a social bomb, also due to the increase in the redundancy fund already announced by the company".
In the background, "the success of the ongoing negotiations with Baku Steel. The company was preparing for the negotiation with the Azeris we arrived with the best possible conditions and proof of this is the meeting that should have been held on the 19th with all the industrial entities that in various capacities could have invested in the steel supply chain. What we hope is that, in the face of a situation that is not entirely compromised, we can truly arrive at sharing common and fundamental objectives for the territory and for the country: the stability of the factory and of the entire steel system and, only by virtue of these assumptions, the start of the decarbonisation processes”.
