The workers of Portovesme srl of Portoscuso and of the San Gavino factory mobilized after the black smoke which concluded the meeting at the Ministry of Enterprise to resolve the dispute that threatens the future of the Sardinian factories owned by the multinational Glencore.
The latter would have deemed the government's three-month tax credit proposal insufficient to restart the activity, triggering new unrest.
In San Gavino the workers pitched tents in the historic foundry , where a "permanent assembly" was convened and also at Portovesme - where some workers chained themselves to the entrance turnstiles - the unions announced "new actions of struggle", which will be decided during a meeting scheduled for Monday morning.
"It is unacceptable that the property expects further public resources from the government to reduce the cost of energy, to support social safety nets, to guarantee a hypothetical industrial conversion", say Fictem, Femca and Uiltec . Adding: «Portovesme Srl can enjoy an affordable energy price, the energy condition of interruptibility, the maintenance of the facilitated tax credit regime. The Glencore Spa group and the subsidiary in question no longer have an alibi. They can only resume activity, reactivate production ».
Also for the governor Christian Solinas "it is not acceptable that in the presence of objectively favorable conditions for the resumption of production, the same conditions that have been accepted by other energy-intensive industrial realities, Portovesme srl continues to perch on outdated or surmountable arguments and not to assume , publicly, the responsibility to declare one's real intentions".
To date, with the redundancy fund launched and the production lines stopped, there are 1450 direct and indirect payrolls at risk.
(Unioneonline/lf)
