Premier Matteo Renzi said
Friday that the government is "very close to a solution" for the
troubled AST steel plant in the Umbrian city of Terni that is
threatened with closure.
Workers there have been on strike for weeks hoping to
convince the German-owned company to change its plan to cut up
to 550 jobs there.
Renzi said that if "responsibility prevails", an agreement
on saving the plant can be achieved.
Industry Minister Federica Guidi also urged a sense of
responsibility in working to close an agreement that she said
would "maintain the integrity of the (plant) and give stability
to the workers".
AST CEO Lucia Morselli said Thursday that the company's
steel plant won't be dismantled.
Original plans by AST's parent company ThyssenKrupp to cut
550 jobs at the plant led to a series of strikes and protests in
recent months, some of which turned violent.
"The intention is to maintain the Terni production site in
its entirety, excluding any hypothesis of dismantling the
facilities," read a message to staff signed by Morselli and
attached to the Terni plant's gates.
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