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26 November 2019 "Update of the tariffs, establishment of the Taxi Service, new viability to Piazza dei Cinquecento and the fight against illegal trade". These are the main demands that led Roman taxi drivers to proclaim a day of strikes for today and a sit-in in front of Termini station, which was attended by several dozen white car drivers. The category calls for a meeting with the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, precisely to discuss these issues.

"But despite two sit-ins and two letters for Pec - he told the agency Dire 'Merlo', one of the trade unionists of the acronym Tras- after 3 and a half years we have never been received. The Municipality of Rome never responded to "We are deceived by the Rays. Starting from the question of the adjustment of the tariffs, which are still 10 years ago". To make the list of requests to the City, Anna, representative of Orsa, thought about it.

"We want to re-establish a dialogue with the parties - he explained - from the tariffs to be adjusted, to the adhesion or not to the Taxi web platform (defined as a 'Merlo' scam, ed) which could make us join without our signature. We need a new one viability in piazza dei Cinquecento, which is the problem that causes the queues outside the station.We ask to be able to use certain preferentials like the one on the Laurentina and to remodulate the shifts, and we want the taxy service for the customers: a service to accompany the cars , with transport of suitcases, and information for customers, carried out by our staff. There is in many other Italian cities. Here at Termini we had started on July 20 but they immediately fined us. Finally we want a real fight against illegal trade. The local police car service has only 10 people, and when we call them they say they don't have the means ".

The strike, called by Legacoop, the Italian taxi drivers movement, Orsa taxi Lazio, Tras, Unica Filt Cgil, Uri, Uritaxi and Usb taxi sector, does not involve the totality of the cars. A Termini has seen several cars in service with protesters intent on distributing flyers to their colleagues on duty.