Nothing new on the horizon: industrial production remains at a standstill and hundreds of workers are on furlough or on redundancy . For the metalworkers of Sulcis, this Christmas will therefore be marked by worry and anticipation . The workers are paying the highest price, and for this reason, the sector unions – Fiom, Fsm, and Uilm – through their local secretariats, are relaunching pressure on the government, calling for a meeting on aluminum as early as the first few days of the new year .
" Aside from the temporary rescue of Eurallumina, nothing good is expected for the Portovesme factories, " the unions denounce. "The expectations resulting from the institutional discussions in September and October 2025 for the Portovesme and former Alcoa industries have been consistently disappointed. The risk facing the relaunch of the primary aluminum plant is that the major Greek group, which has been bidding to acquire the Sider Alloys plant for months, will abandon the project permanently."
The unions feel cheated and point the finger at "an entrepreneur incapable of keeping his promises. We've gone from a phantom industrial plan that was supposed to produce approximately 160,000 tons of primary aluminum per year with approximately 500 employees, to the seizure of a large portion of the plant for environmental damage and just 60 employees (furthermore, they're on redundancy pay, due after the Christmas holidays due to the company's unreliability, including in its relations with INPS). This doesn't even include the more than 300 workers still on temporary layoffs, perpetually waiting for production prospects."
Invitalia's position is also highlighted by the FIOM, FSM, and UILM: "The state-owned subsidiary, co-owner of the plant, continues irresponsibly to support this bankruptcy , risking compromising the due diligence request put forward by potential new interlocutors." It won't be a happy Christmas either "for the Portovesme and Enel contracts, and for the many on redundancy and redundancy payments, and for the precarious situation faced by the few who still work, but there is no intention of giving up," the unions promise. Hence the calls for the Region to "take action" and for the Government to open a discussion in early 2026 "to truly relaunch the aluminum supply chain."
(Unioneonline)
