• Protests explodes Rome companies, first general strike
  • Rome, Friday general strike. The unions: "We block the city"

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25 October 2019Trains and planes at risk on a national scale, bus, underground and garbage collection stops in Rome, where there is fear of a paralysis due to the protest of all the municipal companies: a black Friday is expected on the transport and services front throughout Italy.

School problems due to the unrest of grassroots unions, in justice for the mobilization of lawyers. General strike of all public and private categories for the whole day in air and rail transport. Alitalia workers should also be stopped for 4 hours. Stop at the Lazio Lazio regional company Cotral and ENAV. Disruptions even in Milan airports.

Alitalia cancels 240 flights
Alitalia flights canceled due to the flight controllers' strike (from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm), of flight crew members belonging to Anpac, Anpav, Anp (4 hours) and to the air transport strike. The company canceled 240 flights, of which 150 were national and 90 medium-range international. Two guarantee bands are foreseen, from 7 am to 10 am and from 6 pm to 9 pm, in which the traffic will be regular. Alitalia has activated the extraordinary plan which provides for the use of more capacious aircraft on domestic and international routes and the possibility of modifying reservations for free.

The protest against the mayor Rays in the capital
Today, Rome is in danger of being completely blocked due to protest against the Giunta Raggi. Public services stop, from the subway to the buses passing through the collection of waste, the museums and the municipal tax services. 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".

Trade unions: "Strike for Rome, tired of living in degradation"
"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".

Rays: "Strike without reason, the unions revoke it"
"I continue to invite the unions to lift this strike, which from our point of view has no motivation. In Roma Metropolitane there is a guarantee of employment levels, there is the intention to keep the company in public hands". Thus said the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, on the sidelines of a meeting at MIT, returning to ask the unions to revoke the general strike of the participations scheduled for Friday 25 October. "We demonstrated it with Atac - he added - that everyone wanted to make it fail. We kept it public, it is hiring new staff, it is bringing new buses to Rome, so the intention is clear. When we say something we do it".

Fioramonti: we will avoid inconvenience to schools
"We are observing the situation, we are monitoring; we will ensure that there are not too many problems for the school system". Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said yesterday about the general strike, on the sidelines of a meeting with the press for digitization in schools at the Ministry of Education.

The principals: we expect chaos
"When there are such strikes, the first to lose are students and school workers. We expect that many middle and high school students are absent because of the transport strike. On the waste side, the situation is bad enough so, and to be told not to throw the garbage in the bins for a day seems to us a mockery ". Thus the president of the Lazio garrisons association, Mario Rusconi., "Some branches of an inclusive institute, due to the janitors' strike, could also close. It will be a day of chaos", he concludes referring to the adhesion of the staff of the company Multiservizi to the strike of the Capitoline municipalities that could have impacts on municipal kindergartens and schools, where Multiservizi staff is responsible for cleaning and opening institutions.