(ANSA) - Rome, November 6 - Oil giant ENI reached an
agreement with labour unions and Sicilian authorities Thursday
on upgrading its oil refinery near the town of Gela to make it
environmentally friendly, a spokesman for Industry Minister
Federica Guidi said.
"Jobs saved," spokesman Enrico Romagna Manoja tweeted.
"Agreement reached on ENI Gela in presence of Minister
Guidi".
"The refinery goes green".
UILTEC Sicilia trade union secretary Antonio Ferro said of
the deal stipulating no jobs will be lost: "An important step
for the defense of employment and the consolidation of this
industrial reality".
Under the deal ENI will invest 2.2 billion euros in the
60-year-old refinery to make it eco-friendly.
In all some 3,000 jobs are at stake in safeguarding the
future of the refinery, which recently was hit by strike action
and a major fire.
ENI agrees to 'green' Gela refinery, saving 3,000 jobs
Deal between labor and management, with govt help