Overview
- On Wednesday workers from the ex-Ilva Cornigliano site set up a tent camp and occupied the Prefecture in Genoa, saying they would sleep there until they get written commitments.
- Unions and employees insist on a formal, black‑on‑white pledge that new steel coils will arrive so production can resume within roughly two months, and they reject verbal offers of talks as insufficient.
- Minister for Enterprises Adolfo Urso told the Chamber he proposed talks with the company to avoid stopping the Genova and Novi plants, but union leaders say no documented agreement has been produced.
- Regional officials say they are drafting a shared protocol with prefectural and union representatives, yet as of the latest reports there is still no concrete written guarantee to secure supplies or jobs.
- Coils are the raw steel bobbins needed to feed Cornigliano’s production lines, and unions warn that delays in sourcing them—linked to wider disruptions at Taranto—would directly threaten local output and employment.