The Indian group Jindal and the owner of Luxottica, Leonardo Del Vecchio, do not give up on the Ilva of Taranto and relaunch across the board by offering 1.85 billion euros and the immediate hiring of 9.800 employees, of which 2.000 to be allocated to the realization of industrial investments and environmental. The goal is to steal Ilva's photo-finish from ArcelorMittal-Marcegaglia-Intesa Sanpaolo, who are currently in pole position, gaining the consensus of the unions and putting pressure on the Government and Minister Calenda who is leading the operations.
After the refusal of the Attorney General of the State to raise prices only, the Acciaitalia consortium, led by Jindal and supported by Del Vecchio, has in fact started a counterattack with a new global offer but has lost the support of Cassa depositi e prestiti and the iron and steel industrialist Arvedi, who walked out.
The validity of the new offer has been extended to 30 September 2017. We will see in the next few days how Calenda will be able to solve a considerable puzzle whose objective is the relaunch of the Italian steel industry, starting from the strategic plant of Taranto.
Meanwhile, the unions are mobilizing on the matter: the general secretaries of Fim, Fiom and Uilm, Marco Bentivogli, Maurizio Landini and Rocco Palombella, have decided to write to the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, and to the Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda, in relation to the Ilva dispute, “to request the convening of a meeting prior to the decisions that the government will have to take. This in order to be able to explain the trade union assessments on a strategic event for the country and for the world of work, such as that of Ilva ".
But Minister Calenda immediately cooled the enthusiasm arguing that "the tender procedures are not changed in the running" and the new offer would not comply with the procedures because the consortium changed after the renunciations of Arvedi and Cdp.
