Portuali Trieste: "Protest to the bitter end. From the State incitement to violence"

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  Port of Trieste: "Strike, but those who want to work enter".

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October 15, 2021 "An incitement to violence came from the state when they tried to buy us by offering us free tampons". Stefano Puzzer, spokesman for the Trieste Port Workers Coordination (CLPT) and promoter of the dockers' strike, speaks to the crowd - over six thousand people gathered at Varco 4 since dawn this morning.

"By proposing tampons only for our category - he explained - the State has instigated other workers to violence by demonstrating that those who beat their fists can have privileges".

"We are 400 dockers - added Puzzer - here today. For two years we worked in conditions in which 10% of the health protocol was respected: the only one who was interested in us was the Port Authority. what have we been told? If you don't have the green pass you can't work ". Puzzer reiterated that he was "vaccinated" also stating that "in the Constitution it says that every citizen has the right to work" and that "European laws say that there can be no discrimination for the vaccine". "We believe in the Italian Constitution and, more importantly, we believe in the freedom of choice." "All together, peacefully, we can defend our freedom of choice and the Italian constitution and we will go on until thethe obligation of the green pass for workers will not be canceled ".

"The protest goes on until they remove the Green pass", he reiterated later in the press conference, saying that "a lot of people on buses arriving from outside are blocked. I don't think it's for reasons of public order is a sign that the dictatorship has begun ".   

"We have always worked and the traffic volume has increased by 45%. The answer was: if you do not have the green pass, do not enter. The Green pass is not a health measure but an economic one, a blackmail that was done to people to do it go get vaccinated ".