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Trade unions plan Italy refineries strike

  • Mercados: Crude oil, LPG, Oil products
  • 25/09/14

Italian trade union leaders have announced plans for further strikes across Eni's refineries.

In a joint statement they said there will be strikes, organised at a local level, throughout October. They are also threatening another national strike in the first week of November with further demonstrations in Rome.

The Filctem, Femca and UILTEC union representatives for workers at Eni said the company had, as they feared, "no intention of carrying out its promises" made at previous talks over the shutdown of refineries across Italy.

The unions said Eni has done nothing promised during talks with economic development minister Federica Guidi on 31 July, which were also endorsed in writing by the minister.

Local level discussions have got nowhere, they said, and a further planned meeting with the Ministry of Economic Development has been postponed indefinitely because the unions and the energy firm have been unable to come to any agreement.

Following local and national strikes and demonstrations in July at refineries at Gela in Sicily and Porto Marghera in Venice, Eni had promised to discuss at a local level ways of preventing refinery closures that would result in the loss of thousands of jobs. Such measure include turning the conventional refineries into ‘green' refineries, producing biofuels.

Eni owns five refineries in Italy and part owns a sixth. At least four are threatened with closure, with €700mn of development funding recently withdrawn from Gela in Sicily.

At the time of writing, Eni had made no public comment on the strike move.

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