Calm returns after the anti-Uber protest on Thursday, in Italian cities. The service has returned to normal but not everywhere: in fact Milan, Turin and Florence are doing well, while there are still hotbeds of protest and intermittent service in Rome and Naples.
The taxi drivers confirmed the state of agitation until Tuesday, the day set for the meeting at the Infrastructure Ministry, on the eve of the resumption of parliamentary work in the Chamber on the Milleproroghe decree. Just an amendment to the decree, which postpones to the end of 2017 the provision that limits the access of rental cars with driver (the so-called Ncc) and establishes the criteria for issuing licenses, sparked wild protests in Italian cities on Thursday, with tourists and travelers left stranded without notice, contrary to any legislation on the right to strike.
Today, Friday, the service has returned to regularity in almost all Italian cities but only emergency services are guaranteed in Rome. To avoid running into penalties from the Guarantor on strikes in public services, taxi drivers are present in rest areas but do not take rides, limiting themselves to those for hospitals or for disabled or elderly people. Nico Di Giacobbe, of the Unica CGIL explains that "Minister Delrio has summoned the representatives of the taxi drivers for Tuesday, then we will decide what to do".
In Milan spontaneous assemblies have met in front of the Central Station and at the airports of Linate and Malpensa but no particular inconvenience has been reported. In Turin the service resumed from Thursday afternoon. In Florence the same while in Naples the taxi drivers guarantee the service but say they are ready to resume the agitation if they deem it necessary.
