* The unionists are preparing a large-scale protest

* "We will block access into the plant, if the management of Mechel will continue to turn the equipment into scrap metal"

* "I have notified the AVAS ever since 2006 about the situation at Mechel-Câmpia Turzii. Nothing happened!"

* The "Bar and Slabs Forge" (Mechel Târgovişte), which even worked for the military industry, has lost its market

Thing are becoming increasingly tense at the Mechel Câmpia Turzii plant.

Following some requests sent by the Wire Industry Union of Câmpia Turzii and by the prefecture of Cluj to Victor Ponta and the competent ministers, a meeting took place yesterday, with the participation of the delegated minister for Social Dialog, Liviu Pop.

He announced that the Government will review the contract for the privatization of the Industria Sârmei Câmpia Turzii metallurgic plant (which was renamed to Mechel Câmpia Turzii in 2003), given the numerous questions around it: "There are issues concerning the privatization of the Câmpia Turzii plant in 2003, and around the activities which are taking place here, as the decisions which are implemented are being made somewhere else. There are signs that this contract has not been honored. When it comes to the government we are required to take the first steps and we will have a discussion with the ministers of the Economy, Finance, Environment, with the Authority for the State Assets Recovery (AVAS) to check the status of the privatization contract and its consequences. If any irregularities are found, the institutions of the state will be notified - if it is unfair competition, abuse of office, negligence on the job. We will try to obtain the desecretization of this contract".

The leader of the union of Mechel Câmpia Turzii, Ioan Pascu, said that according to his information, the contract with Mechel is secre