Former Ilva, Piantedosi meets the workers, Bishop Tasca visits the garrison

«The commissioner structure together with the Government is working precisely on Genoa's request, which is a very practical request: we need raw material for our factory, which is fully functional and produces something requested by the market. We simply want him to work and the signs are positive." This was declared by the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis, taking stock of the former Ilva dispute, before the meeting with the minister Matteo Piantedosi.

The mayor underlined that "the request was accepted by the commissioner structure and the Government" and that "we need to look for the raw material on the national and international market".

Also commenting on the presence in the city of the owner of the Interior Ministry, Matteo Piantedosi, Salis specified: «The minister's arrival is very important and I thank him. There is a topic of attention on safety: I went to Rome to ask for a specific intervention on our historic center, a wonderful place that has been experiencing critical issues for decades now. We need the Government to listen to us and help us"

In the meantime, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi has arrived in the Prefecture and received a delegation of workers before starting the meeting of the committee for safety and public order.

«No one expected solutions from this meeting, but we appreciated that an important minister like Piantedosi received us and listened to concerns and proposals to get out of the chaos created by the commissioners». Armando Palombo of the Fiom CGIL reported this to the garrison at the end of the meeting in the Prefecture in Genoa with the Minister of the Interior. «We gave him a written document with our requests» – explained the union delegate – «there is a solution and we believe he understood it: he confirmed to us that a great deal of work is underway between commissioners, the Government and national secretariats to get rolls to Genoa and supply the factories in the North not affected by judicial measures. We can and want to work, we don't ask for assistance but we demand that the plants do not stop, otherwise we will lose customers."

In order to avoid the complete shutdown of the cold rolling plants at the Genoa Cornigliano, Novi Ligure and Racconigi sites, we reiterate the need and economic and production feasibility of feeding these plants through the purchase of black coils on the market". This is the request of the RSU of the former ILVA of Cornigliano contained in the technical document delivered this morning to the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi during the meeting in the Prefecture in Genoa with the union delegation - «on the international markets the prices of hot rolls are significantly lower than the internal production costs of AdiinAs, burdened by heavy plant unsaturation phenomena». The workers' representatives explain that resorting to the foreign market would make it possible to reduce procurement times and that the choice to temporarily operate as simple rerollers would be manageable without generating particular diseconomies. The text precisely quantify the volumes necessary to avoid plant shutdowns and replicate 2025 levels: just over 10 thousand hot rolls for the Genoa hub, which produced less than 350 thousand tons of galvanized and tin, and 15 thousand rolls for the Novi Ligure plant. «The purchase of approximately twenty-five thousand hot rolls on international markets» – concludes the note delivered to Piantedosi – «would mean avoiding the complete shutdown of the two factories and ensuring the needs for a production similar to that of 2025».

However, the mobilization continues indefinitely in front of the Government Palace: «Wordful reassurances are not enough: we need a clear plan, in black and white, which excludes the transition to layoffs for 985 workers from mid-November. Only then will we evaluate whether to remove the garrison; in the meantime we are preparing to spend this night in the square too."