Women's Day this year is likely to be remembered as a day of chaos and inconvenience for one general strike which involves transport and risks bringing the main cities to their knees, from Rome to Milan.
The means of local public transport will stop, therefore buses, subways and trams, but also trains and planes. The protest has a national character and therefore will concern the entire Italian territory. Stopping will not only be transport, but also school and health personnel.
The general strike will last 24 hours and was called by the Cub (the basic unitary confederation) and by the basic trade union, Usb, against "male violence against women, gender discrimination, against precariousness and the privatization of welfare , the right to free and accessible public services, to universal and unconditional income, to housing, to work, to equal pay, to school education, to freedom of movement, for policies to support shared maternity and paternity".
ROME: ATAC, ROME LPT AND CONTRAL STRIKE FOR 8 MARCH
In the capital, the strike will affect not only Atac vehicles, but also those of Rome Tpl and Contral, the regional transport company.
For Attack a 24-hour strike called by Cobas and Usb is expected, At risk bus, metro, tram, kindergartens, Ama. All information on buses, trolleybuses, trams, subways and railways Rome-Lido, Termini-Centocelle and Rome-Civitacastellana-Viterbo. During the night between 7 and 8 March the last trips of the daytime service are guaranteed even if scheduled after midnight. The night bus service is not guaranteed (lines from N24 to N1 and line 28), while in the one between 913 and 8 March neither the last trips of the daytime bus service are guaranteed even if scheduled after midnight, nor after midnight, the service of the ABC lines of the underground and of the tram 9. The night bus service is guaranteed ( lines from N24 to N24 and bus line 8)
For the day of March 8 instead regular service until 8.30 and from 17.00 to 20.00
For the suburban buses of Rome Tpl even two protests proclaimed by Usb and Faisa Cisal are foreseen. The first of 24 hours, the second of 4 hours, from 8.30 to 12.30.
The means cotral instead they will remain closed from 8:30 to 17:00 and from 20:00 at the end of the service.
Two other important news about the capital:
- Workers will also strike AMA and therefore the waste collection service will suffer a stop,
- From 16 to 20 is scheduled procession "Not one less“. The demonstration will start from piazza Vittorio Emanuele II and will reach piazza Madonna di Loreto, parading along via Carlo Alberto, piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, via Liberiana, piazza dell'Esquilino, via Cavour, largo Corrado Ricci and via dei Fori Imperiali. Approximately 6000 people are expected to attend.“
MILAN: ATM AND TRENORD STRIKE FOR 8 MARCH
In the Lombard capital, the staff of Atm they will stop from 8.45 to 15 and from 18 until the end of the service.
Regional trains are also at risk. Trenord has already announced that regional, suburban, long-distance trains and airport connections with Malpensa airport (Malpensa Express and Malpensa-Bellinzona) could be subject to delays, limitations or cancellations. In the time slots between 6 and 9 and between 18 and 21, the journeys indicated on the Trenord.it website and in the notices at the station will be guaranteed. In particular, in the morning time slot, trains that depart after 6 and arrive before 9 will be guaranteed. For Malpensa Express journeys, which will not be carried out due to the strike, replacement buses will be provided, without intermediate stops, exclusively between Milan Cadorna and Malpensa Airport and between Stabio and Malpensa Airport.
MARCH 8 STRIKE: TRAINS AND PLANES AT RISK
Trenitalia announced that a national strike was called between 00.00 and 21.00 on Friday 8 March 2019 by the staff of the Italian State Railways Group. As far as regional trains are concerned - the company reports - "the essential services envisaged in the event of a strike will be guaranteed on weekdays from 6.00 to 9.00 and from 18.00 to 21.00." Further services are also planned , with particular attention to reports of higher passenger traffic. The Leonardo express service between Rome Termini and Fiumicino airport will also be guaranteed”. Adjust Arrows. As for national trains, here is the Trenitalia schedule.
The strike will also involve Italian, who published a list of guaranteed trains.
Finally, the planes: airport workers on the ground and seafarers adhering to the Usb acronym of Italian airports will stop from 14 to 18 pm. In the same time slot they will also strike for employees Alitalia, including pilots, flight attendants and ground staff. From 11 to 15 a strike by the seagoing and ground personnel of the company is foreseen Air Italy.
