Sled a Thursday 19 January, the strike with demonstration in Rome by the former Ilva workers initially set for Wednesday 11. They announced it Fiom, Uilm, Usb. Stay out of the Sim Cisl.
January 11, confirm Francesco Brigati, provincial secretary Taranto Fiom-Cgil, "there will be a press conference in Rome, in which the works council will be present with the RSU of Fiom, Uil and Usb and in that circumstance we will send a message to the government: institutions, territory together with the organizations trade unions claim a public intervention to seriously start an ecological and social transition for Taranto and for the Ex Ilva ".
The mobilization was postponed after the convocation of thescheduled meeting at the Mise for January 19 (starting at 23pm the day before), as was indicated by Franco Bernabe last week. The president said of the January 19 meeting: “I believe that everyone cares about development, employment and health. There is no difference between the company, trade unions and administrations on the final objectives to be achieved”.
Union demands
On that occasion the workers will hold a presidio before the ministry because, explains Brigati, “we believe that even in the phase of conversion of the decree law you can change the action and don't wait for 2023 and 2024, but do it as soon as possible. We believe that those public funds – underlines the trade unionist – they cannot essentially be given to a multinational without a clear perspective, and therefore a mission of what could be the future of that factory".
“We want solutions – underline the secretaries of Fiom, Uilm and Usb – on the environmental and productive future of the steel plant. What we've been asking for a long time is that there is a un change of governance and that public money is used for a clear and unequivocal process of ecological and social transition".
Referendum called for workers
Meanwhile these days, during the assemblies the union organizations are submitting to the workers a referendum question asking them if, in the light of the latest decree, they are in favor of “direct intervention by the State through a immediate recapitalization in the current management of Acciaierie d'Italia, so that public money is used for a clear and unequivocal process of ecological and social transition".
The results of this internal referendum will be delivered to government representatives on 11 January, when in Rome the territorial and national secretariats, with local institutions, will hold a discussion and a meeting with the press on the future of the Ex Ilva. The workers will be able to vote in the referendum not only during the assemblies but also in the banquets that will be set up at the gatehouses of the plant on 9 and 10 January.
