Workers and union delegates on state roads 7 and 106. Today the meeting in Bari with the president of the Region Antonio Decaro to ask for employment guarantees.
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Former Ilva workers are protesting against the government decree deemed insufficient to protect employment.
More protests by workers at the former Ilva in Taranto: for the fourth consecutive day, since Monday, demonstrators have organized protests on state roads 7 for Massafra and 106 Jonica in the direction of Reggio Calabria.
Even last night some workers and union delegates remained along the streets, taking shelter in tents and lighting makeshift fires to protect themselves from the cold.
The reasons for the unions' protest
Fim, Fiom, Uilm and Usb will meet the President of the Region Antonio Decaro in Bari today, not satisfied with the decree passed by the government. At the center of the discussion, the request for concrete support from the Region and Province, through a shared document that puts pressure on the executive and favors a new urgent convocation at Palazzo Chigi. For the unions, the exceptional redundancy fund provided for in the contracting companies, with the aim of avoiding layoffs, does not offer sufficient answers. The organizations ask for employment guarantees and an industrial plan based on the decarbonisation of the plants.
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Meeting between trade unions and the President of the Region Antonio Decaro in Bari.
Very likely · Within days

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