HUNDREDS of Alcoa workers and Carbosulcis demonstrators clashed with police in Rome on Monday over planned job cuts.
Several police were injured as workers threw paper bombs and firecrackers while shouting slogans. The workers, from the Alcoa aluminium plant and the Carbosulcis coal company in southwestern Sardinia, targeted the ministry of economic development.
During the clashes union leaders and Alcoa representatives met government officials inside the ministry building. Officials are hoping for a white knight offer.
During Monday’s meeting, Alcoa management said it was willing to open negotiations with Klesch for the Sardinian plant after another possible suitor, commodities multinational Glencore, hesitated.
The soaring cost of energy in Italy put the aluminium plant in peril and is destroying other energy-intensive industries, Giorgio Squinzi, the president of Italy’s largest industrial employers’ confederation Confindustria, said last week.
Klesch is the only company to have submitted a formal expression of interest, said FIM national secretary Marco Bentivogli, who was at Monday’s talks in the Italian capital.
Reuters
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