In the country of the corporations, taking citizens hostage, with particular "attention" to the most disadvantaged, is a rule that almost always works and which, moreover, does not lead to great risks. In recent months there have been repeated strikes in transport, preferably on Fridays, which have had mixed success. Some have been revoked, after causing enough inconvenience anyway, some have failed, some have succeeded. Among the most singular events, which also testifies to the inadequacy of public administrators, is that of the Venetian vaporettos for which the company did not deem it necessary to organize the minimum services.
The reason? There were three members of the union that proclaimed the strike, a pity that almost all of the workers joined de facto and that on that day the connections, even between the islands, were blocked. Rules to correctly guarantee the exercise of the right to strike in essential public services, also in implementation of the provisions of the Constitution (which evidently is not always considered "the most beautiful in the world") have been talking about for decades. Recently, Minister Del Rio has intervened several times, moreover without his reasonable proposals being followed by a shred of concrete action. So far nothing new.
Instead, what constitutes a real "qualitative leap" is the announcement by Snami, the national union of Italian doctors, to proclaim the strike of the Milan Medical Guard from 7 to 10 December, which has already been baptized "the strike of Sant'Ambrogio”, patron saint of the city. Naturally, the leaders of the doctors union do not fail to shed crocodile tears. "We are very sorry. We know that we will cause some (?) inconvenience to the population but this is the only way we have left to make our dissent felt towards the reorganization of a service that is being distorted”.
The merits of the differences between Doctors and the Region must be the subject of an in-depth assessment, but by professional figures such as doctors, who never fail to play a role in all political and institutional settings and are, incidentally, managers of the public service, it is it is legitimate to expect a more responsible and more respectful behavior of the citizens. Beyond this there is only the closure of the emergency service. And what should the forces of order who are prevented by law from striking say? Even the employees of nuclear sites for which the law excludes the right to strike could have felt a certain discomfort, but since our country has given up on these plants, the problem no longer arises. Beyond some paradoxical aspects, it is to be hoped that the matter of the Guardia Medica will be reduced to a "test ballon", but it remains serious that the representation of one of the major professional elites of our country does not at least pose the question, not only deontological, of respect for the essential services of the population. And the silence, at present, of institutions, political forces and social representatives is equally worrying. Perhaps everyone is waiting for the Prefect to intervene with the precept.
