GENOVA (ITALPRESS) – They prepare to spend the night on the street the workers ex Ilva of Genoa, from this morning in permanent garrison with ruspe and working means waiting for a table on the future of the company. Near the road block of Cornigliano, the neighborhood that houses the establishment, there are curtains, field stoves, food and comfort. “We are ready to sleep here, we will stay in the street until answers arrive to ensure a different path than the one declared by the government in Rome – explains Nicola Appice della Rsu Fim Cisl -. Fear is that you cannot find a solution and that workers are left to themselves. The risk that the factory closes is very strong. We have experienced many dramatic situations, but we have never come down as low as today.” In the late morning the president of the Marco Bucci Region met the workers guaranteeing the maximum commitment to the future of the Cornigliano steel mill, also with the hypothesis of the “spezzatino” or the direct intervention of the state. In the evening the mayor Silvia Salis is expected.
In the meantime the event has broken Genoa in two causing very serious inconvenience to the traffic: on the A10 highway – that remains the only connection between the Levant and the Ponente of Liguria, if it is excluded the railway – they have formed 12 kilometers of tail in direction Genoa. Constructed on A7 and A12 with cascading repercussions on the whole town road, accomplices some construction sites active for days at the most neuralgic points.
DALLA MATTINA FABBRICA OCCUPATA E BLOCCO STRADALE A OLTRANZA
The former workers Ilva of Genoa on strike occupied the factory, then formed a procession with the means of the factory and blocked the viability of Cornigliano. “Today is a different day from the others – said in assembly Armando Palombo, delegate Rsu Fiom -. There are thousands of jobs in Genoa. They are closing Taranto and together with Taranto goes to bathroom also Genoa. We don’t want this. We ask the Government, the Region and the Municipality that find solutions and do not speak of areas, because we are fed up.” The workers have mounted a gazebo in the street with the intention to continue the block to oltranza.
“I am extremely concerned about the total stale that is occurring on the ex Ilva dispute, with a thousand workers and genoese families who risk seriously losing wages and employment and a city and a country that risk losing one of the main assets of economic and industrial development.” Thus the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis, on the strike and demonstrations of the workers ex Ilva. “The government has failed too many times in the search for an effective solution for the future of the company, the workers and industry of this city and of this country – says Salis – The moment of answers has already arrived for a long time and is no longer procrastinable. The workers had rightly asked for this administration to have a strong position to safeguard their employment, establishment and sustainable industrial development. This administration, since the first days of its settlement, has not gone back and has assumed a decisive position, not without political criticism, but considering the future with an act of extreme responsibility towards the workers and the industrial and economic development of the city. But the government’s announcements were once again disrespectful: now it’s time for answers.” Salis concludes by reasserting “Total proximity to workers and Genoa and all plants. We are ready to call back the government to its responsibilities in all institutional and political locations. Finally, as a mayor, I cannot but appeal to the workers so that the comprehensible actions of protest remain in the post of respect for the rest of the citizenship.”.
“The situation is not good, it is not acceptable, so we are all working. We are absolutely determined to ensure that Genoa goes on, because of the steel there is need and because the tin that is made here by us is really of high quality, so useless to go abroad when there is an Italian factory that manages to make it. This factory has a future and must not close”. Marco Bucci, president of the Liguria Region, met the workers of the factory former Ilva of Genoa. “The problem, as you know, is not in Genoa but in Taranto, but we are connected, so either we run the link or we find another connection, there is no other choice. If you do not want to do certain things in Taranto, we must have someone who makes the coils or we do them – Bucci added. There are no people disagreeing with this. The problem is that, in an attempt to make the total sale, these requests came out that for Genoa are not good. The government intends to do the things we need.”.
“Those who participated in the race have placed certain conditions to buy everything. If instead there will be different conditions for those who want to buy only one piece, we must absolutely work in these terms,” he specified. “I say this perhaps more now than not before, because now, seeing the offers that have been made, it is clear that it becomes much more attractive for us,” Bucci added, who does not even exclude nationalization: “I don’t deny that it is one of the biggest pushes we have done is that if you take the state.” “I understand your protest, I think the whole city is close to you, indeed I am sure of it – added the governor talking to the employees descended into the street with ruspe and means of work -. So there is no gap between the factory and the city.”.
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