“The announcement of the meeting with the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando (scheduled for Monday 28 June, ed) is not enough for us to stop the protest ». Armando Palombo of Fiom-Cgil, coordinator of the RSU of the Cornigliano plant of Acciaierie d’Italia (formerly Ilva), effectively summarizes the thoughts of the workers of the Genoese factory who today, at the end of an assembly, have decided to continue the strike to the bitter end started yesterday, which blocked city traffic in the west for eight hours.
The decision was made to go back to demonstrating. The procession, opened by a banner with the words «Government servant accomplice of Mittal», paraded in via Cornigliano, preventing the passage of public and private transport. And the Genoa traffic has again tilted.
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Cornigliano blocked
Then the demonstrators took a side street (via San Giovanni d’Acri, where the headquarters of the Genoa CGIL are located) to reach the Guido Rossa road, a fundamental artery for the viability of the Ponente of Genoa, which yesterday was blocked for almost everything Finally, the procession, during which smoke bombs were lit and firecrackers launched, moved back to via Cornigliano.
The protection of the gates of the Genoa plant also continues designed to give an unequivocal signal to the company, which is required to withdraw the ordinary layoffs, due to market crisis, for all over 900 workers in Genoa. The provincial secretariats of Fiom, Fim and Uilm have sent one letter to the company to ask, in fact, officially the suspension of the cash register.
Stop tomorrow and strike again on Friday
Tomorrow, the feast of San Giovanni, patron saint of Genoa, the protest will stop, the workers announced, out of respect for the citizens, “but on Friday – Palombo said – we must be determined and ready to unmask the servants and accomplices. We have to go to the prefecture, with helmets on our heads. We hope this message arrives loud and clear. We go there to defend the steel industry. People like us never give up ».