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Minister Adolfo Urso on Monday said 540 jobs were saved at the
former Fiat and Blutec vehicle engineering production site of
Termini Imerese, Sicily, thanks to an agreement reached on
Monday by local and national authorities, pensions and social
security agency INPS, unions and the Pelligra company, the new
investor which pledged to reindustrialize the plant.
Urso called the agreement an "historic turning point" for Sicily
and a step towards the "country's industrial rebirth".
The agreement provides for measures to safeguard the jobs, the
social protection of workers through INPS and the concrete
commitment of the region and government to support the plan to
relaunch the industrial plant through targeted investments,
among others.
Progress will be monitored to ensure the implementation of the
accord which was reached after "negotiations that involved
hundreds of workers and their families for over 13 years", said
the regional business councillor in Sicily, Edy Tamajo.
The plant, which once employed 700, was shut down on November
24, 2011.
In 2019, the president and the CEO of Blutec, the company that
took over the former Fiat plant near Palermo were arrested on
suspicion of embezzling money from the State.
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