National demonstration of CGIL, CISL and UIL in Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome , the first of the three jointly announced initiatives that opens "the week of mobilization for work" . And in which today also the protest of the metalworkers of the former Ilva converges, on strike for 24 hours in the ArcelorMittal group's steel plants and in the related industries. Numerous buses are expected from Taranto with workers and union delegates. Overall, "a few thousand" workers were expected in the square, according to the same unions. Today's assembly-event is focused on the themes of growth, corporate crises, the unblocking of construction sites and infrastructures and the development of Southern Italy.
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The interventions of the general secretaries of Cgil, Cisl and Uil, Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Carmelo Barbagallo are expected, but also of six company delegates to bring their voice on the open disputes (Almaviva, Alitalia, Mercatone / Conad, Ilva, induced Ilva, construction sector). The other two trade union initiatives are scheduled for Thursday 12 December, again in Piazza Santi Apostoli, with the theme of renewal of public and private contracts and recruitment in the Public Administration at the center. The last Tuesday 17 December on the revaluation of pensions, the tax reform and the law on non-self-sufficiency.
It has been underway since 11pm yesterday and the strike of the direct workers and the ArcelorMittal contractor proclaimed by Fim, Fiom and Uilm of Taranto and autonomously by the Usb will end tomorrow . They challenge the new industrial plan of the multinational company, which asked for an additional 4,700 redundancies by 2023 and the failure to return to the work of the 1,600 workers currently headed by Ilva in As. sit-in in front of the management, which was also joined by representatives of environmental associations that call for the closure of the factory, the reclamation with re-employment of the workers and the economic conversion of the territory. Departed from Taranto last night with about twenty buses, more than 1,000 workers of the former Ilva and the induced reached Rome together with the delegates of Fim, Fiom and Uilm, for the national demonstration #futuroallavoro organized by Cgil, Cisl and Uil.