Former Ilva, today there is a 24-hour strike in all factories. Procession in Genoa

From Taranto to Genoa, the workers of the former Ilva are mobilizing on the occasion of the 24-hour national strike proclaimed for today, Monday 12 October, to say no to the shutdown of the plants and with the unions which do not exclude that the same mobilization could be extended in the following days.

Heavy vehicles and many workers lined up, already in the early hours of the morning, in front of the gatehouse of the former Ilva in Cornigliano where a meeting called after the commissioners' decision to stop the plants took place. Present were the mayor Silvia Salis, the deputy mayor Terrile and the parliamentarians Pastorino and Furlan.

"There is no industrial reason to treat the Northern factories in this way when the market requires their processing: an agreement on the international markets for the supply of raw materials would be enough and the problem would not exist", said Salis, moving in a procession together with the workers towards Genoa.

"Today is an important day because we want a very clear message to arrive from Genoa: we don't want the factory to close, we want it to continue working because it makes a highly requested product that we would otherwise import from abroad", underlined the president of the Region, Marco Bucci, who arrived in Cornigliano.