A strike that threatens to paralyze the whole country. From the evening of Monday 14 December and until the morning of Thursday 17, the fuel distribution plants will be closed due to strike. The protest will involve both plants located on the ordinary network and those on the motorways.
To announce the stop through a press release are 3 trade unions: Faib Confesercenti, Fegica Cisl and Figisc/Anisa Confcommercio. After the tensions of the past weeks, the breaking point therefore seems to have arrived.
"The decision became necessary as a result of the Government's inexplicable unavailability to include the small and very small management companies entrusted with the plants, in the category of categories benefiting from the support measures included in the various Refreshment Decrees“, underline the associations.
“Fuel distribution is classified as essential public service having to guarantee, even in the current as in past emergency circumstances, the continuity and regularity of the activity, in the interest of the community, to allow the movement of people and the transport of all kinds of goods ", the trade union associations continue. “It follows that the managers, in addition to suffering dramatic decreases in their turnover due to the restrictions on mobility and the night curfew, they have no chance of containing the considerable costs landlines needed to keep the distribution business available to the public. What, already in these days, is causing uncontrolled and forced closures in the area, due to the lack of liquidity and the impossibility of purchasing product supplies ”, they explain. “Facts that herald the near future progressive bankruptcy of small management firms, with dramatic effects on employment levels in the sector which employs almost 100.000 people”, the trade associations point out.
