Revoked on the second day of gas station strike. The news comes after this afternoon's face-to-face meeting between the trade unions – Faib, Fegica and Figisc – and the Government at the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy. The protest, which began at 19 pm on January 24, should have lasted 48 hours, but during this afternoon's meeting, the petrol stations' organizations agreed to revoke the second day of protest. At this point, the strike will end at 19pm today in the city and at 22pm on the highways, despite the fact that the acronyms have confirmed the very harsh accusations made against the government.
Petrol strike: canceled on second day of protest
“Fegica and Figisc Confcommercio have canceled the second day of the strike “in favor of motorists, certainly not of the government”, the two acronyms say in a joint note.
The revocation, in fact, does not come following an agreement between the parties, but the exact opposite: "The proposed amendments made by the Government to its own decree do not remove the manifest intention of identifying petrol stations as the recipients of confused obligations, counterproductive as well clearly accusing“, argue the unions, according to which “it now appears clear that any attempt to advise the Government of reasonableness and concreteness cannot or does not want to be accepted. For this reason also insisting on continuing the strike action, used to get a hearing from the Government, it no longer has any reason to exist. Especially since one of the fundamental objectives, namely to restore the truth after the false and decomposed accusations against a category of workers, has been abundantly achieved".
The Italian citizens, “have understood perfectly. It is, therefore, up to them, to the citizens that the gas station attendants address, certainly not to the Government, revoking the second day of the strike already proclaimed, eliminating any possible further discomfort, completely useless at this point. Therefore, the distributors they will reopen from tonight. At this point the discussion moves to Parliament where the petrol attendants have already started a series of meetings with all the parliamentary groups because the text of the so-called transparency decree collects the necessary changes during the conversion"
The reasons for the protest
The wave of protests and the consequent strike was triggered by the ok to the "Transparency" decree which obliges distributors to display a sign showing motorists regional average fuel prices. An obligation that the Government interprets as an invitation to transparency (nomen omen), but which petrol attendants see as an abuse, above all after the accusations received from members of the Executive who had spoken of “price speculation” by some operators. Calculator in hand, it was immediately clear that the government's decision to eliminate the cut in excise duties imposed by the Draghi government in order to control prices.
