There are about seventy workers at Sider Alloys, already without a salary, and from today on zero-hour redundancy pay . The Swiss multinational that in 2018 purchased, with precise promises and commitments, the Portovesme plant from Alcoa, is struggling to restart.
Faced with this decision, the unions are back on the attack . "The government and the Region cannot accept this decision, certainly we will not accept it nor the workers", clarifies the secretary of the Fsm Cisl of Sulcis-Iglesiente, Giuseppe Masala.
The company had announced to the unions the new recourse to the CIG justifying the decision with the "temporary impossibility of resuming normal activities in the short term" within the factory.
For Masala, "this is unsustainable behavior, even more so in light of the commitments made with the 2018 program agreement signed by the ministry, the Region, Invitalia and Sider Alloys. Nothing of what was planned has been carried forward on the revamping front and for the relaunch of the former Alcoa, but at the same time the situation of workers has worsened, with salaries that are skipping and now the redundancy fund".
According to the secretary of Fsm Cisl, "it is clear that at the current state Sider Alloys, after eight years, is not able to guarantee not only salaries and current employment, but not even to start real development programs and projects. Now the Government must guarantee, for the share of ownership of Invitalia, concrete relaunch interventions, to be implemented in a short and certain timeframe, even bypassing the current majority shareholding of Sider Alloys. The Mimit must immediately recall the company, stop wasting time and resources ".
(Online Union)
