Chaos Ilva. While Minister Di Maio continues to stall on the future of the Taranto steel mill, two worrying signs are arriving: meanwhile, Ilva's extraordinary administration has reached its last 24 million. From the next few days until the end of September it will burn just under one million euros a day and then the cash will turn negative. Not only that: while the economic and financial balance of the steel group has now reached a point of no return, the unions have also counterattacked, which through a joint statement from the top management of the four major acronyms (Fim, Cisl, Fiom, Uilm and Usb) , addressed to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Labor Minister Luigi Di Maio, put further pressure on the government by asking for a very urgent meeting to unblock the deal and threatening a strike.
“Clarify whether the tender is valid and urgently reconvene the negotiation #Ilva. Do not unload responsibility on the union for having lost 4 months in a dangerous blame game.. Govern!”, writes the general secretary of Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli, publishing the document on Twitter. "The undersigned trade union organizations - reads the joint document - ask for a very urgent summons to know the decisions that the Government intends to take on the industrial and employment prospects of the Ilva group and its 14 workers, as well as related related industries". The message insists on the strategic importance of the steel mill for the country's economic system, and closes as follows: "In the absence of a prompt reply, we inform you that we will implement an initiative to mobilize the entire group".
In the last few hours, the case of new consortia that would be in the running has also broken out, in the event that the negotiation with the international group ArcelorMittal fails. In fact, on 15 September the mandate of the extraordinary commissioners expires and in some press organs rumors have circulated of a return to the office of the CEO of Ast of Terni, Lucia Morselli, a year ago appointed in Cassa Depositi e Prestiti as CEO of Acciai Italy, the consortium with Arvedi, Jindal and Delphin which lost the tender for the acquisition of Ilva in June 2017. “We don't know what Morselli's jacket is in these last few hours: Cdp? Elliot Fund? Government consultant?”, writes Bentivogli again. “We hope that Minister Di Maio denies this collaboration. We recall that Jindal at the time in an offer of 1.2 billion he put only 3-400 million unlike ArcelorMittal's 1.8 billion. The rest was borne by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Delfin and Arvedi”.
