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October 21, 2019 Next Friday Rome will be completely blocked. To protest against the Giunta Raggi public services stop, from the subway to the buses passing through the collection of waste, museums and tax services under municipal jurisdiction. The confederal unions have confirmed the general strike in the Campidoglio's participated companies, which have about 40 thousand employees. It is the first general strike in the city. "There had never been, is the first, under the junta Marino was a strike of municipal employees, and it is obvious that we do not enjoy blocking the city - says the secretary of the Uil Lazio Alberto Civica - but they are killing the subsidiaries".Consumer associations will also participate for the first time. "It is a strike for Rome, we are tired of living in degradation", adds Natale Di Cola, of the CGIL.
The CISL proclaimed the strike that will affect all the companies in Rome, "We tried hard to find the agreements with this administration, but then the agreements became waste paper. We want to defend the investee companies and the their public nature ", was echoed by Gianpaolo Pavon of Cisl. "It is a strike for Rome and it is not light-hearted. We are tired of living in degradation with poor services and employees who work in humiliating conditions, with violence against Atac and Ama operators. A climate so hostile towards workers does not exist he had never been, "said Di Cola. "After two and a half years signing agreements with this administration, we are faced with the liquidation of the Roma Metropolitane company and my question is this: 'If the signing of agreements is not honored, how can they ask us to trust them again?'", stated Civica. He explained that this mobilization also became in part "political" after the first of October "they asked the intervention of the public force to the garrison of Roma Metropolitane".
The first time for consumers
"For the first time consumers will also participate in the general strike called by the trade unions in Rome on October 25th". The Codacons notes that it has decided to formally adhere to the workers' protest "against the disastrous state of the city and to demand the urgent commissioner of the mayor Virginia Raggi".
"For the first time citizens and workers will be on the same side on the occasion of the strike on 25 October, and Roman users will contribute to blocking the city - explains the president Carlo Rienzi - The situation in the capital is so devastating, with the services public in constant deterioration, the dissatisfaction of rampant citizens and the chaos of investee companies, that there is no other solution than the administration commissioner ". "Roman citizens are the first victims of the deterioration and constant deterioration of public services and, for this reason, they can only support and support the strike on October 25. Precisely on that date the Codacons will take to the streets together with the unions, in representation of users of the capital, "concludes Rienzi.