The trade unions FIOM, FIM and
UILM on Monday occupied the Termini Imerese town council in
protest at the failure of the Blutec company to meet union
demands..
"The silence of the national government, guarantor of the
agreement between Invitalia and Blutec, is not justifiable. This
is why we have decided to occupy" the town council premises, the
unions said in a statement, calling for "concrete answers for
the thousand workers and the relaunch of the site".
Invitalia is the economy ministry-owned National Agency to
Attract Investments.
They also asked for a meeting with the economic development
ministry and noted that 20 days had passed since Invitalia had
initiated the procedure to get 20 million euros back from
Blutec, part of the public funding for getting the former Fiat
plant back to producing.
"But nothing has changed," they not, vowing to continue the
protest.
The president of the Sicily region, Nello Musumeci, said that
the "immediately after the approval of the financial and budget
law, we will work for a meeting at the economic development
ministry to try to find a concrete solution for the workers and
the relaunch of the site".
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