Former Ilva, there is no agreement with the unions on the CGS

There is no agreement on the extraordinary redundancy fund for up to a maximum of 8,622 workers, communicated by the company on 17 November.

At the end of the meeting at the Ministry of Labour, updated after the previous round on 6 November, the unions decided not to sign the agreement in the absence of sufficient employment guarantees and without an industrial and decarbonisation plan. The unions communicated this at the end of the meeting.

"Many hours of discussion which were useful for making precise commitments both on the part of INPS and on the part of the company to better manage this painful and dramatic redundancy fund in terms of numbers. But today's meeting ended with a lack of agreement". The national secretary of Uilm Guglielmo Gambardella said this after the meeting at the ministry.

"I believe - he said - that there has never been a dispute with an audience of affected workers in the context of industrial crisis disputes. We are suffering from this redundancy payment, which is also why we didn't make the agreement, because it is something that is the fruit and consequence of the wrong political choices of recent years".

"It was obvious that there could not be union agreement on an agreement, because that would first of all mean sharing the purposes and motivations that lead us to discuss the CIG and for us the shutdown of all the plants, regardless of the reason, is absolutely not acceptable regardless of whether or not there was the decision of the Court of Cassation". The national secretary of the Fim Cisl Valerio D'Alò said this at the end of the meeting. "What remains important is what the future is beyond the commitments made today - he explained -. We have learned about the tenders, we are also happy that there is an Italian group whose solidity and seriousness we know in the commitments they carry out, but for this reason there is a need to have the meeting at Palazzo Chigi, so that all these aspects are clarified".

"We said that there were no conditions to grant a fund for 8,622 people and for the consequences on the related industries precisely because the prospects of the factories and steel plants are not yet clarified and also because this is a direct payment fund which is a big problem for the workers", explained the national steel coordinator for Fiom-Cgil Loris Scarpa. Furthermore, he added, "we still have no response to all our other requests, both social and with regards to environmental health and safety. There will still be a long process of discussions here, we hope that the next meeting at Palazzo Chigi will be as soon as possible and we can start to get some clarity".