After a meeting that lasted nine hours, the unions, extraordinary commissioners, ArcelorMittal, and Minister Luigi Di Maio reached an agreement on safety, a step considered necessary to ensure that accidents such as the one that cost the worker Cosimo's life no longer occur Massaro, who died last Thursday from the collapse of a crane during a storm.
The agreement requires the owners of the former Ilva to present "Extraordinary investment plans linked to maintenance and activation of ad hoc meetings in all areas of the Taranto plant, to be extended to the subsidiaries and other group plants, with the RSU of reference linked to ordinary and extraordinary maintenance".
At the end of the meetings in the various areas of the plant, "the management actions and investments useful for meeting the needs that emerged during the course of the same meetings will be provided to the trade unions".
The report provides for "meetings, area by area, to verify the use of workers placed in the ordinary redundancy fund".
During the summit held at the Mise, there was no lack of friction, with the CEO of ArcelorMittal Italia, Matthieu Jehl, who, even without making direct references, sent a clear dig at the Government: "In all this affair he said -, there is the impression that we are working against our company”, he said, probably referring to the decision of the Executive to abolish criminal immunity. "A complex situation like that of the former Ilva is resolved only by the country that helps," added Jehl.
According to the general secretary of the Fim Cisl, Marco Bentivogli: "The serious security situation does not start today but is the result of poor commissioner management that has continued until today".
“After the replacement of Commissioner Bondi by other governments, the commissioner's management reduced ordinary and extraordinary maintenance to a minimum, creating the conditions of insecurity which in recent years have set in motion a chain of accidents, even very serious ones, without end. As a union we have denounced these situations dozens of times, punctually, unheard ", continues the trade unionist.
“Our constant calls to get our hands on extraordinary and ordinary maintenance have never been answered by the extraordinary administration. The commissioner management that Arcelor Mittal must work to find solutions that immediately provide for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance interventions is no longer tolerable, too many deaths and too many accidents ", concludes Bentivogli.
