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  • Ilva, third day of protest in Genoa

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November 06, 2019 "We must start immediately with mobilization. We need a strike immediately". Thus the leader Fim Marco
Bentivogli welcomes the presentation today, by ArcelorMittal, of the start-up of the company branch transfer procedure for the former Ilva Group plants. ArcelorMittal's backward step is creating considerable tension. Waiting for the meeting for the meeting between the heads of the multinational and the premier Giuseppe Conte scheduled for the morning, the workers mobilize are garrisoned in front of the Taranto plant.

Expected assignment of the case to a judge
It will take a few days before the specialized business section of the Court of Milan assigns to a judge, then fixing the date of the hearing, the lawsuit brought by a writ of summons from ArcelorMittal which asks to withdraw from the former rental contract of the former Ilva of Taranto. On average, from what has been known, it takes about ten days to register the case in the role and send it to the Section, which then assigns it to a judge. In this case, however, given the relevance, the times could be shorter.

Meanwhile, in Taranto, outside the management of the former Ilva, now ArceloMittal, began the protest presidium promoted by the trade unions Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm for the crisis of the steel plant and above all to follow the evolution of the situation seen that this morning the President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, will receive the ArcelorMittal management at Palazzo Chigi.

This is the multinational company that acquired the former Ilva with a tender in June 2017 and took over the management, the extraordinary administration, in November 2018, hiring 10,700 people from the former Ilva of which 8,200 in Taranto. On Monday, however, ArcelorMittal notified the commissioners of its intention to withdraw from the contract, citing a series of reasons, including the loss of criminal immunity on the environmental level, suppressed by the Enterprise Decree now law; the situation of the blast furnace 2, which risks stopping due to the intervention of the judiciary and dragging also the blast furnaces 1 and 4, thus leaving the factory without facilities for the production of cast iron which is then transformed into steel; and finally the hostile climate on the part of institutions, local and otherwise.

Yesterday ArcelorMittal's lawyers filed a summons against the commissioners at the Court of Milan - the registered office of the iron and steel company - where they say that even the restoration of criminal immunity would not be sufficient because there are several other critical issues that make impossible to execute the acquisition contract, while this morning ArcelorMittal will start the technical procedure by which it will return to the same extraordinary administration both the plants and the plants and the hired personnel. The procedure does not end today but will have its own procedure and the company has said that as long as it remains, it will still send the plants forward, ensure maintenance and pay the employees. Morselli was the one who announced the start of this procedure when he met the provincial metalworkers' unions in Taranto last night. Together with the garrison outside the factory, it is reunited
in permanent session also the works council which, according to the evolution of the situation and what will happen today at Palazzo Chigi, will decide whether or not to decide further initiatives.

Bellanova: "Italy does not become a laughing stock of Europe"
"Twenty thousand jobs risk jumping, together with the Taranto workers, those in Genoa and Novi Ligure are waiting for an answer. Italy cannot become the laughingstock of Europe: if you sign an agreement, you must respect it. If you change the current conditions of work, send the message to the world that you are an unreliable country An authoritative policy cannot satisfy the contingent moods "," for us in Italy alive the steelworks must remain open, so we are ready to present an amendment that restores the guarantees legal canceled "," in the council of ministers Prime Minister Conte and Minister of Economic Development Patuanelli assured us that the comparison with ArcelorMittal would have continued without repercussions. Now everyone will have to take the responsibility to choose. Our position is clear: Iv wants "Ilva open and functioning. But the Democratic Party is willing to clarify once and for all what it intends to do in Taranto? Because I haven't understood it". This is how Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova and head of the Italian delegation lives in the government in an interview with Il Foglio. And turning to M5S he adds: "It is time to end it with propaganda. There is an investor who has signed an industrial and environmental recovery plan, we must go on this. Ilva cannot become a new Bagnoli, a cemetery in the open air that would not solve the problem of pollution.When we say no to everything and we come to imagine a playground instead of a factory, we can perhaps gain the easy consent but then the fallout of those unfortunate and demagogic slogans present the account. And the bill is paid by the citizens ". And he claims: "With Renzi and a few other brave people we caught the whistles and the protests of the protesters who also came from my party at the time. We didn't pull back, we went anyway because we knew that the affair had caused deep lacerations".

Landini: "ArcelorMittal is not Little Red Riding Hood"
ArcelorMittal is not Little Red Riding Hood who entered a wood that he did not know, this is the moment of responsibility: we are talking about the largest multinational group in the world that has not decided to buy Ilva unaware of the situation that there was and there were problems ", said the leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, guest of Circo Massimo on Radio Capital." Not by chance - he remembered one of the questions asked was the criminal question: now they cannot say not I saw, I was not there, if I was asleep, cunning today, no one is allowed ".

#MaurizioLandini
The problem between health and work is dramatic. We are the country where work-related deaths increase. We need a cultural leap so that security is not only considered a cost #CircoMassimo @_CircoMassimo_

- CGIL National (@cgilnazionale) 6 November 2019


Emiliano: "We must prepare for the possibility of another consortium"
"We need to prepare for the possibility of another consortium", said the governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, in an interview with the 'Corsera' on the case of the former Ilva. 'If Arcelor Mittal confirms his decision - he warns - he will think of another consortium. You can do it even in a short time. Besides, you can try to call also the consortium arrived second. Arcelor Mittal does not abandon mica for criminal immunity, something that does not exist anywhere in the world and that it was about to be examined by the Constitutional Court. The real reason is the generalized crisis in the sector that led Arcelor Mittal to believe he was wrong to enter into the contract ".