Ex Ilva, the Puglia Region wants to put the cassintegrati in the reclamation

A vocational training plan for zero-hour lay-offs in the complex industrial crisis area of Taranto, especially the 1,600 in charge at Ilva in extraordinary administration, which provides for their use in socially useful activities. Example, environmental remediation. It is the theme that the Puglia region opened with the government and the trade unions. He had an initial confrontation with the latter on May 17. When the topic came up for the first time, the CGIL thought of a re-edition of the old socially useful works and said no. “But no confusion should be made with the socially useful jobs held up for about 30 years – he explains to Leo Caroli, head of the employment task force of the Puglia Region -. In this case we are talking about active labor policies and a warning that we want to launch, discussing it with the trade unions, having as beneficiaries those who are in cash at zero hours ».
Task force: avoiding undeclared work
“In the case of Ilva – specifies Caroli -, the workers remain employees of Ilva in extraordinary administration, they do not pass to another person, also because it is Ilva, based on a 2018 agreement, who must relocate them to work”. “Instead of keeping them in layoffs without doing anything or seeing them in illegal work, we give a first productive connotation to the workers” adds the coordinator of the task force. Caroli explains that the Puglia Region has 10 million euros available for the training of workers in the crisis area “and that a discussion is underway with the ministries of Labor, the Environment and the South”. “When we talk about socially useful activities, we think of something that could have a positive impact for the Taranto area, for example reclamation,” explains Caroli.
The trade unions: check the Acciaierie d’Italia plan
«A training plan for these workers cannot fail to start from the industrial plan of Acciaierie d’Italia, the new public-private company set up about a month ago – says Giancarlo Turi, Uil secretary -. There is no sense in training disconnected from the needs of the company and the professional figures it will need. Also because we are talking, in the case of the former Ilva, of a company that will have to face a challenging transition path ». «We must also not forget that we are talking about workers who have been in the steel industry for many years – Turi continues – and their relocation must in any case take place in the industrial sector, certainly not in a generalist context. In addition, these workers also receive an economically strengthened layoff due to integration “. And even Paolo Peluso, CGIL secretary, says that “the industrial plan that Acciaierie d’Italia will present to the trade union organizations remains to be verified when negotiations on employment levels begin. The goal is always full employment ”. “The reintegration of workers currently in layoffs” with “reintegration guarantees also for those still in charge of the extraordinary administration, for whom at the moment we do not see any valid alternative path”, finally asks the Fim Cisl secretary, Biagio Prisciano.
So far in the reclamation only a few dozen units
The idea of ​​using Ilva’s cassintegrati in extraordinary administration in reclamation is not new. The commissioner management of Ilva, owner of the plants, a small nucleus, about fifty employees, already keeps him busy in the remediation of the steel and steel areas that in November 2018 were not sold to ArcelorMittal Italia. This is a work that has just started. It concerns the disposal of 400 thousand tons of industrial sludge. Then the reclamation of the Leucaspide ravine at the gates of Taranto will be faced, but here the knot of the environmental characterizations requested by Harp Apulia. In any case, the real problem is not increasing the share of redundancies in reclamation, but their future. Also for 2021 they are perceiving the integration to the cig, equal to 10 per cent of the entire treatment, a measure that is worth 19 million euros entered in the first “Sostegni” decree, but it is difficult to hypothesize their return to the steel mill. The agreement with ArcelorMittal Italia in 2018 provided for this, with 2023 as the final date, but the subsequent ones (March and December 2020, respectively between ArcelorMittal and Ilva in as and between ArcelorMittal and Invitalia) no longer mention it. Furthermore, apart from the 1,600 of the extraordinary administration, in Taranto there are another 3,000 of the 8,200 direct ArcelorMittal on Covid layoffs and despite the favorable economic situation pushes the production of steel with a positive impact on prices, the Taranto plant runs with low production and with only two out of three blast furnaces and one out of two steelworks.
Giorgetti: steel will not have zero redundancies
And it does not seem over because at the May 14 summit at Mise, Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said that the project of the new company between the state and the private sector, Acciaierie d’Italia, needs “a transition period that must be managed” as well as “they must be managed the redundancies “. “We know that not all workers will be absorbed in the new project – he added – but we have the possibility, given the investments available, to relocate everyone”. Which makes it clear that the latest plan which provided for 8 million tons of steel by 2015 and by that date the maintenance of 10,700 employees, no longer holds. «If the transition will not be short – comments Antonio Talò, Uilm secretary -, we need to think about an economic integration of the cig also for those who are now headed by Mittal. We cannot keep workers at 900 euros a month for more years ”.

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