Italian metalworkers union FIOM on
Monday called on the government to clarify its position on ILVA
and its troubled Taranto steel plant.
"It is unthinkable that at the end of the negotiations there
can be even one redundancy," said FIOM chief Francesca Re David.
ArcelorMittal got the OK for a takeover of ILVA, which is in
the hands of government-appointed administrators after being at
the centre of environmental scandal linked to high cancer rates
in the Taranto area, under the previous centre-left government.
But Labour and Industry Minister Luigi di Maio recently said
that a revised plan by ArcelorMittal to take over the company
was still not good enough in terms of guarantees for the
environment and jobs.
"The government should go beyond saying that Mittal's
employment plan is not sufficient and clarify its point of view
on jobs and the rights (of workers)," Re David said.
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