Lo shutdown of the blast furnace 2 puts the future of the former steel plant at risk again Ilva of Taranto. That's what he claims Marco Bentivogli, secretary of the metalworkers union Fim Cisl.
"We learn of the decision of judge Francesco Maccagnano to reject the request of Ilva in extraordinary administration - writes the trade unionist in a note - to carry out the safety works of blast furnace 2, seized by the Taranto prosecutor after the judge of the preliminary hearing Pompeo Carriere had rejected the request for release from seizure of Ilva itself in AS. In the provision, Maccagnano argues that having the works carried out and therefore keeping the plant still in operation would mean exposing the workers involved to a dangerous condition since the plant itself is in risky conditions. Blast furnace 2, one of the three (Afo1, Afo2, Afo4) currently operational at Ilva, will therefore have to be stopped and shut down, an operation for which the judicial custodian of the hot area had initiated, on behalf of the judicial authority , the relative timetable”.
The Fim Cisl has been reporting for some time "the delays on Afo2 and on the whole blast furnace area relating to some regulations in force - continues Bentivogli - This another tile is added to the 1.400 workers in the Cig since 2 July, to which another thousand could be added precisely because of the seizure of Afo2. Between now and September 6, date of termination of the penal shield, the voltage in the plant increases every hour. If we add the 2400 in Cigs to these 1700 we understand how the slowness with which we try to defuse environmental problems adds up to the government's uncertainty which triggers an unacceptable social bomb”.
The number one of the Fim Cisl also underlines that “in the Senate hearing a representative of the M5S reiterated the need to convert the former Ilva area to another economic activity. Workers don't want subsidies, but want to go back to work in a healthy environment. Benaltrism helps neither work nor the environment. Minister Di Maio should definitively clarify whether he has changed his mind with respect to the agreement of 6 September 2018 and give clear answers to workers of the whole Group and to the citizens of Taranto".
