• ArcelorMittal, the protest of the companies linked to Taranto
  • Conte: government goes on but enough with disputes; Mittal available, but not excluding public intervention
  • ArcelorMittal: "The meeting with Prime Minister Conte was constructive"

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November 25, 2019On the eighth day of protest and defense of the supply companies at the porters of the Arcelor Mittal plant in Taranto, to urge the multinational to pay invoices for 60 million euros. To try to prevent the blockade of the factory, threatened in the absence of guarantees on the refreshment of the credits, in the morning of today there will be a first meeting between the company and the contractors induced, accompanied by the president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano, by the mayor Rinaldo Melucci and the president of Confindustria Taranto, Antonio Marinaro, to cooperate in updating the accounts.
Tomorrow morning a further meeting is scheduled, in the presence of ArcelorMittal CEO Lucia Morselli, to define the payment plan and thus try to close the affair. The association of industrialists has asked the multinational, on behalf of the companies, to sign a document that provides for precise commitments on payments, with a single value date, for at least 70% of turnover. In the past few days, according to Confindustria, notices of payment have been notified only to haulage companies and, with partial amounts, to six service providers. But in total there are 150 companies affected by the missed ArcelorMittal payments and employ 6,000 employees.

Yesterday, during a meeting at the Confindustria headquarters in Taranto, after an exchange of messages between the governor Emiliano, the premier Conte and the minister Patuanelli, the ad Morselli phoned the governor, fixing the two meetings for today and tomorrow which will hopefully be clarifiers. Although the same Emiliano and the mayor of Taranto Rinaldo Melucci yesterday expressed "skepticism" and said they "no longer trust the multinational".

Presidency of the Council, Turkish: "Here is the Taranto Shipyard"
A real university to stem the flight of young people, a strengthening of health presidia by strengthening hospitals and medical staff and then interventions to favor the relocation of the 500 employees who no longer work in the port, of the 1,900 cassintegrati to be paid by the extraordinary administration of Ilva and in the future also other possible Arcelor redundancies: these are the main measures of the "Taranto Shipyard" that the premier Giuseppe Conte intends to launch shortly with a new decree. The undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Mario Turco, spoke about this in an interview with "La Stampa".