IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO
by Giuseppe Pipitone | 19 NOVEMBER 2019
In the appeal of the lawyers of the commissioners to the Civil Court of Milan is reconstructed the case of the steel center of hunedoara, in Transylvania, where in the years '90 twenty thousand people (on ninety thousand inhabitants) worked at the Ispat iron and steel: There are now 700 plant workers. " The acquisition of the centre in 2003 in the context of the country’s privatizations led to a drastic reduction in staff and the dismissal of a large part of the industrial complex," they wrote
It’s not just Taranto. In the past of ArcelorMittal there’s a case very similar to that that is going on air in the factory of the former ilva in the Apulian city. An emblematic precedent. That in fact is reconstructed by the commissioners Giorgio De Nova, Enrico Castellani and Marco annoni in the urgent appeal ex article 700 to the Civil Court of Milan. A very harsh indictment against the steel multinational, which is trying to prosecute the illegitimate intent””to terminate the lease and whose “behaviors have been programmed”for “carry as much as possible level of devastating offense”. In the 70 pages of the action, the commissioners go so far as to hypothesize the true reasons”of the modus operandi of the Franco-Indians which are evidently due to“”; or“the evidence of their inability to manage the operation pursued”, an interpretation defined as“benevola”, or“to the pervasive will to eliminate from the market definitively one of its competitors by destroying the company organization”....
As far as the Commissioners are concerned, this is a general framework which can obviously only give a breath to those who, at the time of the Contract, had forecast that it would quickly emerge that ArcelorMittal had entered into the Contract for the sole purpose of killing one of its major competitors on the European market“. Then the reconstruction of De Nova, Castellani and annoni goes two thousand kilometers away from Puglia, northeast: in Romania. “A situation– they write referring to the question ilva– unfortunately not new for ArcelorMittal: the story, in fact, sorry to say, is taking on a disturbing parallel with the strategy that ArcelorMittal put in place a few years ago compared to what should have been the relaunch of the hunedoara steel centre in Romania“. Seventy thousand people live in the city in the heart of Transylvania: in the 90’s more than twenty thousand worked at Ispat steelworks Sa, opened in 1884 and then became the State company in the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceaușescu. “The Hunedoara steel centre has long been one of the most important industrial complexes in Romania, a veritable industrial city of 90,000 inhabitants, of which more than 20,000 are employed in various ways, In the steel complex”, they reconstruct the commissioners.
Between the end of the 90s and the first two thousand years, however, Romania begins to privatize state companies: and in the land of Count Dracula arrives Mittal. “The purchase of the steel centre by ArcelorMittal in 2003 as part of the country’s privatisations; for its improvement it involved at the beginning a drastic reorganization of the personnel and the dismissal of a large part of the industrial complex that today’s Resistente presented as finalized to a full revitalization of the steel center: But things went very differently”, continues the appeal to the Court of Milan, to which are attached some press articles on the Taranto of Romania.
“Since the 2003 acquisition, ArcelorMittal has been phasing out the steel centre, gradually making two-thirds of the remaining workforce redundant, which fell in 2011 to less than 700”. To explain how had matured the purchase of the steel Ispat by the multinational franc indiana is Nicola Borzi on the Daily Fact: For the 2001 British general election, the tycoon writes a cheque for the Labour Party for 125000 pounds. Then he asks for the support of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair to buy the state steel industry of Romania. What does Blair do? He takes pen and paper and writes in Bucharest suggesting that the sale in Mittal could help Romania to enter the European Union. That said and fact: in 2003 Mittal arrives in Transylvania, four years after Bucharest
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