ArcelorMittal, the workers return to the streets. Landini: "Let's fill up Rome"

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"We will fill Rome tomorrow," said CGIL secretary general Maurizio Landini, speaking of the demonstration to coincide with the workers' strike of ArcelorMittal, the former Ilva. "We trust that there will be a few thousand workers at Ilva's facilities. A strong participation and determination of the bike," he said.

"We will be in the streets in Rome to ask for a serious industrial policy, investments, to open the sites - the Secretary General of CISL, Annamaria Furlan wrote on twitter - to support the South. Arcelor Mittal must respect the workers of the former Ilva and the community of Taranto. The agreements are not waste paper ".

More than 1,000 workers from Taranto
More than 1000 workers of the former Ilva and the induced, together with the delegates of Fim, Fiom and Uilm, left from Taranto with about twenty buses to reach Rome, where tomorrow will be held the national demonstration #futuroallavoro organized by Cgil, Cisl and UIL. There are three bus departure points, a brief stop in front of the ArcelorMittal plant management before starting the journey to Rome. The buses, escorted by the police, will reach Piazza Santi Apostoli, the place where the event will be held from 9.30 to 12.30.

In addition to Taranto, in Rome there are also workers from Genoa, Novi Ligure and Racconigi, all lined up for the no to the redundancies declared by the steel multinational that in November 2018 took over from Ilva in extraordinary administration in managing the group. In Taranto, between the iron and steel and contractors, the strike began at 11.00 pm today and will go on for 32 hours until 7 December 11th. The long strike was decided by the trade unions to favor the widest participation and to collect also the adhesion of those who finish the second shift at the factory at 11pm tonight.

On the strike another stark contrast between Mittal and the unions
On the strike tomorrow, a new stark contrast has arisen between ArcelorMittal and the unions with the latter who dispute the company with the increase in the number of commandos in order to nullify the participation in the strike. The commandos are teams of workers who, organized by the company with the consent of the unions, preside over the plants, thus refraining from the strike, to guarantee above all their safety. The unions accuse ArcelorMittal of having violated the agreements concerning the commandos in the steel industry by arranging a decidedly higher number.

The use of the blast furnace 2 extended
Favorable opinion of the prosecutors of Taranto to the request for extension presented by the commissioners of Ilva in As on the use of Altoforno 2, seized and withdrawn several times in the inquiry into the death of the worker Alessandro Morricella. The commissioners ask for a year to comply with the requirements of automation of the casting field. The decision is up to the judge Francesco Maccagnano, before which the trial on the death of Morricella takes place, which will be expressed between 11 and 12 December.

Friday 13, if the extension of the use of Afo2 is not authorized, the blast furnace 2 would switch off because the three months granted by the Review Court expire to comply with the requirements. The prosecutor's office gave a favorable opinion on the request for extension made by the commissioners of Ilva in As after reading the report filed by the judicial custodian of the steelmaker Barbara Valenzano.

"The negotiation with Mittal is only at the beginning," said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte while denying the rumor that Mittal would be ready to pay 1 billion to get out of the former Ilva. In negotiations with Mittal for the former Ilva plant in Taranto, the government proposes the entry "of a public company".

Not only Mittal: thousands in Rome to put work back at the center
And tomorrow starts the CGIL, CISL and UIL mobilization week for work, with three national events in Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome scheduled for Tuesday 10, Thursday 12 and Tuesday 17 December. This was stated by the general secretary of Fiom-CGIL, Francesca Re David, according to whom "thousands of workers will come from all over Italy to ask businesses and the government to put industry and work back at the center. This is a first moment of mobilization that unifies and brings together the main crises of the industry. We are one step away from industrial desertification, there is no more time to waste ".

160 open crisis tables
There are about 160 "industrial crisis tables open to the ministry of economic development. The crises are affecting all the metalworking sectors, from the appliance to the steel industry, from the automotive to the electronics, from the computer science to the installations". Ex Ilva, Whirlpool, Ast of Terni, former Alcoa, Wanbao, Jabil, Embraco, Bosch, Cnh Industrial, Blutec, Italian Bus Industry, Bekaert, Honeywell, Piaggio Aerospace are just some of the disputes that will be present tomorrow in Rome. - adds King David - public and private investments to set in motion the old and new social safety nets, to be able to face the phase of industrial transition towards new eco-sustainable development models, to stop the closure of factories and to be protagonists of the change, safeguarding the 'employment and improving working conditions through innovation'.