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Strikes in flurry: no flying on Monday, taxis on Thursday

The weekend kicks off with "Tir Day", then airports shut down on Monday due to the strike by Enav staff, taxi drivers are back in turmoil on Thursday 23 March and finally the maxi strike by all Alitalia staff scheduled for 5 April, to protest redundancies and wage cuts.

Strikes in flurry: no flying on Monday, taxis on Thursday

In order, the trucks, the air traffic controllers, the taxi drivers and then the Alitalia staff, including the pilots. A series of strikes is coming between now and April 5: we start on the weekend with the 'Tir day' organized by Unatras which on Saturday will involve 20 cities in 11 regions. Not really a strike in the technical sense but a series of initiatives organized by hauliers to ask the Government to respect the commitments undertaken with companies. In Rome, the procession of trucks that will arrive and station at the Rai headquarters in Saxa Rubra.

On the other hand, Monday 20 March promises to be more complicated for those who will have to travel by plane: ENAV operational personnel stopped from 13 to 17 pm due to the national strike and administrative staff in the last 4 hours of the service, while the trade union CUB Trasporti (and for the Milan airports also the USB union) proclaimed an entire day of strike. Alitalia has already canceled 40% of domestic and international flights.

Thursday is the turn of the taxi drivers, once again to ask for stringent rules on chauffeured rentals and Uber. However, this time the protest is not unitary and a series of acronyms prefer instead to wait for the developments of the technical table of the government which is defining the new rules. The taxi drivers belonging to Fit Cisl taxi, Uil Trasporti taxi, Ugl taxi, Federtaxi Cisal, Usb taxi, Uti, Unica Cgil, Unimpresa are therefore protesting, while the drivers of the National Associations of Cooperation (Legacoop Servizi, Federlavoro and Servizi-Confcooperative) will not join. of Crafts (Confartigianato, Cna, Sna Casartigiani) and of Commerce (Silt-Confcommercio).

Finally, on the air transport front there will be one new agitation on April 5th, with the strike of all Alitalia workers, to protest the 2.000 redundancies announced by the company in the new business plan, as well as wage cuts. Staff will be on lockdown for 24 hours.

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