As Christmas approaches, you risk finding restaurants or shops closed due to a new strike scheduled for Friday December 22. Around five million workers in the food and beverage sectors will fold their arms business, the and Catering who claim the renewal of the collective agreement, expired in 2019. The protest was proclaimed by Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs. But let's see in detail who is striking and why.
Who will strike on Friday 22 December?
Just two days before Christmas Eve - with the last rush to finish Christmas presents - a new strike complicates the plans of millions of Italians. Not only. Hotels, travel agencies and supermarkets could also join. In detail, the strike concerns:
- business services;
- modern organized distribution services;
- cooperative distribution services;
- hotels;
- public establishments;
- collective catering;
- commercial catering;
- service stations and similar;
- travel agencies;
- spa companies.
What are the reasons for the strike?
According to a joint note from Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs, the strike aims to promote progress in the negotiations, denounce the impasse of the negotiations and highlight the difficult situation of workers with stagnant wages and failure to update contracts, despite the tertiary and tourism sectors recording a recovery and increase in turnover.
Le reasons for the strike iThey include the request by Confcommercio and Confesercenti for a significant reduction in contractual benefits such as the fourteenth month's salary, paid leave and seniority increases. In the tourism sector, employers' associations appear to refuse to discuss wage increases in line with HICP indices, making it difficult for workers to recover the increased cost of living. In addition to economic issues, workers are calling for a review of working hours to better reconcile company shifts with private life, rules against gender violence, parenting support and measures to combat precariousness.
Demonstrations and processions
The mobilization will be supported by manifestations interregional a Roma, Milano e Napoli, and from regional events a Cagliari e Palermo. THE I cut they will unfold through various cities, with final rallies in symbolic places. The consumer associations, Federconsumatori and Adoc, joined in solidarity with the protest of workers in the tertiary and tourism sectors.
