The ex Ilva issue has long been stopped being industrial. It has become a political, economic and social node that tightens around Taranto and the entire country. While i Talks with Baku Steel remain in progress, the Business Minister Adolfo Urso He admitted that the relaunch plan must be rewritten, starting from a very different reality than that imagined on paper. Between accidents, doubling layoffs and an industry that travels in the middle of the regime, a long transition phase opens full of unknowns.
At stake is the Deep transformation of the plantwith the adoption of the electric ovens, the gas as a source and a regasifying ship that will have to become part of the port infrastructure. Meanwhile, unions, entrepreneurs and activists ask for concrete answers on employment, security and energy future. The table is open. The knots on the table also.
War foot unions: national strike on May 21st
Fim, Fiom and Uilm have proclaimed four hours of strike In all group factories to protest against the absence of clear choices by the government. The climate of uncertainty is called “unsustainable” by the acronyms, which ask for rapid and concrete interventions to safeguard employment and safety.
The mobilization will take place on Wednesday May 21in conjunction with the meeting at the Presidency of the Council, where a permanent table was convened to discuss the fate of the steel center. The unions ask for precise answers on the accident in Taranto, on the increase in layoffs, and on the state of the negotiations for the transfer of the company. According to Fim, Fiom and Uilm, there is a risk of compromising the future of about 20,000 employees between direct and indirect.
Confindustria relaunches: the steel must be defended, not abandoned
Confindustria also took the situation with a chest. For the president Emanuele Orsini, lose an industrial site like that it would be a own goal sensational for the entire steel chain.
“It would be a madness to lose a feat and industry so important to be competitive,” he said.
The president of the industrialists thus returns to beat on a point dear to the whole manufacturing sector: without steel produced at home, the ten -year contracts of Italian companies risk standing on nothing. The risk is to find yourself with containers arriving from China and India while the last grill goes out in Taranto.
The alarm of the activists: “dangerous system”
The justice movement for Taranto has written directly to the potential buyers of the plant, including Baku Steel, Baosteel and Jindal. The letter denounces the danger of the plants both for those who work there and for those who live near the factory. According to activists, the former Ilva produces alone Economic losses and health risks.
Delays on the interventions and authorizations still blocked
To further complicate the situation, the decision of the Council of State came to cancel the tender for the new plant intended for pre -pre -ownermaterial considered key for the green steel transition.
Urso admitted that the urgent interventions to secure the system were entangled in the usual network of slow authorizations. “12 days have passed and some authorizations have not yet been granted,” he said, suggesting that not everything is under control. To try to save the salvable, The minister has announced new meetings: one with the companies of the survey, the other with the unions, to try to contain the impact on the people who enter the factory every day. The intention is to manage the decrease in production without leaving workers on the ground and, at the same time, preparing an employment B plan before the emergency becomes a structure.
15 alternative projects to relaunch Taranto
In the meantime, the government works on a parallel plan for the Taranto area. During a table with the business companies, 15 industrial proposals emerged ranging from naval carpentry to renewable energies, up to the creation of an infrastructure for high -performance calculation. The potential is beyond 5 thousand new jobsbut it will be necessary to form the skills necessary to face the transition.
