Aigi, association of the subcontractor companies formerly of Ilva in Taranto, sent on September 4 to the unions the “letters regarding the collective dismissal procedure that will involve a number of workers exceeding 2,500 units.” Nicola Convertino, president of Aigi, explains in a letter that “this is an extreme and painful act, which we would never have wanted to resort to.
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Dismissing our workforce means depriving ourselves of the most precious asset and the pride of our companies, a human capital built over years of significant investments in training and hard sacrifices. Unfortunately – says Convertino – this measure represents a necessary and inevitable act, a direct consequence of the sudden deadline set for the closure of the hot area already in October, for which no possibility of restart is foreseen.”
For Aigi, “we have reached this point due to the total absence of reasonable planning that could have secured our companies, and due to the failure to concretely activate the process of building new plants for decarbonization. These conditions would have allowed us to employ our staff under continuous work conditions. The 28 collective dismissal letters that the companies associated with Aigi are about to submit to the institutions – the president of Aigi further specifies – involve 2,500 workers.”
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Regarding the shutdown of the hot area of the steel plant due to the decree of the Milan Court of Appeal – a decree against which Ilva and Acciaierie d’Italia have appealed to the Court of Cassation, as well as filed a suspension request to the same Court of Appeal -, Aigi states that “this outcome does not occur in the context of an already operational reconversion plan, nor with new factories already built or with thousands of workers guided towards new jobs, but through a mere ninety-day countdown.”
“We want to clarify – says Convertino – that it is not our intention to sanctify Ilva, nor to forget the wounds that this industry inflicted on the city, the environment, and the population in past years. We know that history, but it belongs, precisely, to the past. Today Ilva – it is highlighted in the letter to the unions – is no longer what it was ten years ago: it is a factory that has benefited from millions of euros of investments in plants for pollutant reduction. We entrepreneurs know what it means to dismiss.”
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