Former Ilva, Arcelor Mittal announces the suspension of activities at the Taranto plant
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ArcelorMittal tomorrow company-trade union meeting.
Presidium of related companies at the Mise
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Arcelor Mittal, today the company in court to ask for the withdrawal from the contract
ArcelorMittal, Di Maio: "The criminal shield is a distractor of the masses"
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November 16, 2019
The game for the fate of the former Ilva di Taranto remains uphill.
Yesterday
's
meeting at the Mise
between the government and the unions did not produce any news, although it clarified the reasons why Mittal wants to withdraw.
It was the CEO of Arcelor Italia, L. M., who explained that with the disappearance of the penal shield "the basic concept of the recovery plan of the former Ilva was broken" and that now "continuing is a crime".
There is the problem of the conditions of Blast Furnace two, the one that the Taranto judiciary wants to be closed by December.
Prime Minister Conte excludes that it will be closed, but after the parliamentary mess on the shield ArcelorMittal no longer trusts.
For Luigi Di Maio the criminal shield has nothing to do with it, "we drag them to court" he reiterates today.
For the Franco-Indian giant, however, the shield is the problem.
In the meantime, the commissioners of Ilva this morning filed an exposed complaint with the Prosecutor's Office in Taranto with at the center "facts and behaviors inherent in the contractual relationship with ArcelorMittal, harmful to the national economy".
Therefore, according to their press release, the request to the Prosecutor is to verify the existence of a crime hypothesis.
The Prosecutor's Office, which immediately launched an investigation file against unknown persons on the disengagement of ArcelorMittal, will schedule the hearing of some witnesses in the coming days, who will be heard either by the prosecutors to whom the investigations will be delegated or by the judicial police.
The crimes that will be hypothesized are those "relating - as reported by judicial sources - to the damage caused to the national economy", probably the same article 499 of the Criminal Code hypothesized by the Ilva commissioners in the complaint.
The company's proposal "is unacceptable", comments the Minister of Labor, Nunzia Catalfo, underlining the reduction in personnel with 5,000 redundancies requested by the group.
Catalfo explains that the company had also asked "to derogate from the rules on safety at work", a request "to which I opposed a sharp no".
And the unions return to ensure that workers will not shut down the plants.
Landini (CGIL) speaks of an illegitimate and unacceptable act: "We will not be accomplices, we will find forms and ways, because there people want to produce steel without polluting, they do not want to close plants".
Yesterday's meeting at Mise "was a very, very complicated meeting, where there were no steps forward. We expect that the agreement that we signed together with ArcelorMittal a year ago, with the government guarantor, be respected by everyone "says Annamaria Furlan (Cisl).
"We told ArcelorMittal to withdraw the relegation and the government to put back the penal shield, a guarantee factor that in an incomprehensible way it wanted to remove".
As for Barbagallo (Uil) "this story that we will do a great cause to society worries me, because when the lawsuit ends we will no longer have industrial prospects and jobs," he says.
"Last night we asked to commit to a confrontation with the property since the CEO has only the order to close. We cannot be complicit in this wickedness - he continues -. If we do not solve the problem we will have a tragedy to face for 20 thousand families. , without considering the issue of steel production and the consequent increase in costs ".
The governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, is part of the tarantino heap, and he says he is convinced that Mittal's strategy is to bring down the government.
"Mittal is trying to put the Italian government in a political crisis. It is doing something unprecedented in the international economy: a multinational that seeks, albeit indirectly, to bring down a government. Never seen in history such a thing" he said yesterday evening at 'Petrolio', on Rai2.
"ArcelorMittal is raising its threat to the highest levels. It is putting the factory to sleep, not destroying it I hope, because it wants to exert maximum pressure on the Italian government or because it wants to leave and wants to negotiate conditions to do so; or because he wants to stay but on his terms, not those he signed. "
Zingaretti: nationalizing? Let's think about not turning off
"We must not turn off the ovens. It was in the agreements with the company and this thing should not be done" says Nicola Zingaretti on the sidelines of the work of A whole other story, the democratic festival in Bologna.
On the nationalization of the plants, the Pd secretary explained that "we have left everything in the hands of the prime minister who is doing his job well".
The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office opens a file: "The public interest must be protected"
The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office breaks into the ArcelorMittal case by opening a criminal scenario, currently just sketched out because it has no crimes or investigations, and entering civil proceedings as a bearer of the "public interest ". A sort of double pincer on the Franco - Indian group against which commercial - corporate crimes could be hypothesized for the escape from the Apulian steel mills. The prosecutor Francesco Greco has delegated the Economic Unit of the Guardia di Finanza to carry out "preliminary investigations" to verify "the possible existence of crimes".