The FIOM CGIL engineering union
said Friday it would not sign any deal with ArcelorMittal that
contained the 5,000 redundancies the Franco-Indian group wants
to make in the former ILVA steel group.
Indeed, FIOM CGIL head Francesca Re David said her union
would not accept any lay-offs at all.
The government is trying to persuade ArcelorMittal to reverse
a decision to pull out of a deal to take over the former ILVA
group including its Taranto plant, the largest in Europe.
Lawyers for the ex ILVA commissioners and AreclroMittal said
earlier this week they saw the basis for a possible new accord.
But this would inevitably include some amount of
redundancies.
Lawyers representing ArcelorMittal
and the commissioners of the former ILVA steel group said
Wednesday that the basis exists for negotiations that could
prevent the former pulling out of a deal to take over the
latter. "There is the basis for negotiations that can lead to
an
agreement," said Enrico Castellani, representing the
commissioners, and Ferdinando Emanuele, representing
ArcelorMittal.
They were speaking after a Milan court adjourned a hearing in
a legal challenge against the French-Indian group's move to
rescind the contract to take over the former ILVA group and its
troubled Taranto plant.
The move rocked the government and Premier Giuseppe Conte
vowed to stop ArcelorMittal's pullout, saying the company was
breaching a contract.
At the weekend he announced fresh talks and said they would
take several weeks.
Conte also said the government was "ready for public
involvement".
Last week ArcelorMittal suspended the procedure to turn off
the altoforno 2 furnace at the Taranto plant, pending a ruling
in Milan about whether the French-Indian multinational's
withdrawal plan is legal.
On Wednesday ArcelorMittal Italia CEO Lucia Morselli
guaranteed "productive continuity" until December 20.
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