Use the funds of the Recovery Fund for a productive-ecological conversion focused on green investments in the South, starting from the former Ilva di Taranto. This is Svimez's proposal presented yesterday during the hearings in the Budget and Policies committees of the European Union. According to the data released by the Institute, the closure of the largest factory in the South would cause, considering the [...]
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(by Carla Lucarelli, Giorgio's mother) Mrs. Morselli, I am writing to you after listening to your speech on the Porta a Porta broadcast on RAI 1 broadcast a few nights ago. I could write to her as a simple citizen of Taranto, as a mother worried about the health and future of her three children. But alas, I am writing to you as a mother ... [...]
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Rizzo: “Useless comparison: we speak without knowing the industrial plan and delay despite having all the elements to close with the multinational. Ugly figure of politics "" I am deeply disappointed by the discussion this morning ". Thus the provincial USB coordinator Taranto Franco Rizzo, in his speech during today's videoconference with the Government and commissioners of Ilva [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Ilva di Taranto, towards closure. The State guarantee for a 400 million euro bridging loan, through Sace, has been canceled, nothing has been included in this regard in the Liquidity Decree. In the meantime, ArcelorMittal has suspended payment of the rent. Signs that do not bode well. The week […]
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Thus Franco Rizzo provincial USB Taranto coordinator in a press release: "We expected that, as expected, the service, the result of over a month of work, on the management of the Covid emergency would be broadcast within the transmission" Le Iene "- 19 inside the Arcelor Mittal factory. Viewers throughout the country would thus have had the opportunity [...]
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Reinstated by Arcelor Mittal, yesterday, the first former Ilva worker in As registered with the Union of the Taranto Base, following the sentence with which the judge condemned the company for anti-union conduct pursuant to article 28 of the Statute of Workers ; the legal action was initiated and carried out by the USB. The worker will return [...]
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“Some workers will live Easter without a salary, others will continue to operate in health facilities risking their lives, for a few hundred euros a month. To all of them my most sincere wishes, in the hope that this holiday, which has always been synonymous with peace and rebirth, will mark the discontinuity with respect to the past with reference to various issues, [...]
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Thus in a note, Franco Rizzo provincial coordinator USB Taranto, regarding the Arcelor Mittal-Prefecture affair: "Now nothing surprises us anymore, not even that institutions that should first of all collect and evaluate the requests that come from citizens and workers, decide to leave the field free to a company that, like Arcelor Mittal, shows quite clearly the only [...]
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A glimmer can be seen in the ArcelorMittal government negotiations. Ilva one step away from the abyss begins to glimpse a faint light of hope. The stakes placed on the negotiating table are immovable: up to the 5 thousand structural redundancies declared by ArcelorMittal and compliance with the commitments on an industrial and environmental level, with a push on the transition for [...]
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We need a "Taranto yard" to define a strategic plan. With a letter to the newspaper “La Repubblica”, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte appeals to all ministers to find a solution on the former Ilva. "During my recent visit to Taranto - writes the premier -, I was able to see how the story of the former industrial plant [...]
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The President and the General Director of ABI, Antonio Patuelli and Giovanni Sabatini, express the Association's utmost attention to the needs of the workers of the ILVA of Taranto in a very problematic moment on their prospects and welcome what was hoped for by the Secretary General of Fabi Lando Sileoni, to help identify the most appropriate tools to come [...]
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For the government, relaunching Ilva and Taranto is a priority. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this during the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers dedicated to the situation of the Apulian plant and to the executive's need to stem the desire to disengage from the ArcelorMittal group. "We believe that industrial pole of strategic interest [...]
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SVIMEZ has analyzed the impact that the closure of ILVA would have on our country and on the south. The study is distinct for the different geographic areas using the econometric forecasting model. The evaluation exercise considers the direct, indirect, and induced effects. The first concerns the production achieved and the employment that would be lost directly in the three [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) I, too, son of Ilva. I lived my childhood and adolescence in Taranto, my father worked at Ilva in Taranto, at the time Italsider. Italsider has allowed us to live, study and for most of us also to get sick. At the age of 30, to the amazement of doctors and health statistics, I [...]
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