San Gavino, Solinas moved listens to the stories of the Glencore workers: "I will not leave you alone"
Meeting with the workers of the foundry: «Tomorrow the decisive summit, the company will have to clarify its intentions, the problem is not the cost of energy»Palm Sunday with the workers of San Gavino for Christian Solinas. The president of the Region, invited by the mayor Carlo Tomasi, first met the local administrators, then the workers of the foundry, who are in a permanent assembly awaiting the outcome of tomorrow's "decisive" summit in Rome , when the Ministry of Enterprise and of Made in Italy the top management of Glencore will arrive from Switzerland for the table on the dispute convened by the undersecretary Fausta Bergamotto.
Solinas listened to the stories of the workers (many of them are young fathers of families), who expressed all their concern for their future and that of their families.
Moments of great emotion for the Sardinian governor, who assured: " I'm with you, I won't leave you alone in this fight to defend work and the future of a strategic sector for Sardinia and all of Italy ".
«We will not abandon you and we are not resigned to the cessation of production in a strategic pole , the Italian need for 350,000 tons of zinc per year requires that activities continue, as well as for lead. Furthermore, San Gavino is a leader in the processing of gold and silver».
In short, the attention remains very high: «With you – Solinas told the workers – there is the whole of Sardinia».
Monday's meeting in Rome " will really be the decisive meeting because the public side, the State and the Region, will ask Glencore to clarify once and for all its intentions regarding the Portovesme and San Gavino plants ".
"Today - recalls the governor - energy costs less and the prospect is that of a stabilization of the price downwards, and despite this the company has not revised its position and still does not want to restart the plants".
In short, «the conditions are objectively favorable for the resumption of production, the same ones that have been accepted by other energy-intensive industrial realities. With the data now available and the confirmation of the tax credit for the next three months, it is increasingly clear that the problem is not the cost of energy, therefore the company has a duty to clarify . We note with regret that a clear position has not emerged on the future of the plants".
Whatever Glencore's decision, Solinas reiterates, " The Region and the Government will find solutions to guarantee the workers , who in this difficult moment have given proof and lesson of a great sense of responsibility".
(Unioneonline/L)
