Ex Ilva: Novi on strike to demand work and continue production

On the Monday of the strike at all the sites of the Ex Ilva Group, the Novi Ligure (Alessandria) plant stops with a meeting and demonstration of Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil, Uilm Uil and workers - from the early hours of the morning - to say no to the 'No prospects' that has been looming since mid-November.

"We are on strike to ask for one thing: work.

We ask to continue production in Novi - underlines Alberto Pastorello (Uilm) - After the company's decision to stop the factories in the north and with the wrong choices of this Government we risk leaving 550 families at home". There is also a risk of postponing the redundancy fund.

"Before, in fact, the advance was made by the company. Now it goes directly from the INPS - explains Pastorello - So, we risk not having a euro for Christmas. Once the calculations have been made on the hours worked and on the redundancy payments, in fact, the INPS times are almost two months. Therefore, we are talking about the possible first money from the end of December".

For unions and workers it therefore becomes necessary for the Government to reconfirm its commitment to an industrial project in the Taranto area and all the other territories involved.

"A project that sees the steel industry as a central and strategic element, accompanied by a project and a social plan capable of providing solutions for all the employees of the former Ilva". An objective "that we must aim for without the transition passing like a cleaver onto the shoulders of those who work and their families".