Confirmed for today, Wednesday 24 July, the general transport strike, which will be followed in two days, Friday 26 July, the air transport strike. This was confirmed by the trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti.
The first public transport to stop will be those of Naples, followed by those of all the other cities, from North to South: Milan, Florence, Rome, Palermo and so on, with different times and guaranteed slots.
Here is the list of times of the local public transport strike in the main Italian cities:
- Transport strike timetable Rome: from 13.30pm to 16.30pm;
- Transport strike timetable Milan: from 18pm to 22pm;
- Transport strike timetable Torino: from 18pm to 22pm;
- Transport strike timetable GenoVa: from 11.30pm to 15.30pm;
- Transport strike timetable Venice: from 18pm to 22pm;
- Transport strike timetable Bologna: from 11pm to 15pm;
- Transport strike timetable Florence: from 18pm to 22pm;
- Transport strike timetable Perugia: from 17.30pm to 21.30pm;
- Transport strike timetable Napoli: from 9pm to 13pm;
- Transport strike timetable Bari: from 12.30pm to 16.30pm;
- Transport strike timetable Palermo: from 9.30 to 12.30.
Not only: from 9 to 17 the trains will also stop, except for the high-speed ones.
They will also cross their arms workers in the maritime and motorway sectors.
The appeals of the Guarantor of Strikes and the Minister of Transport, Danilo Toninelli, who had tried to convince the unions to call off the strike to avoid a black Wednesday after Monday's disruption for the arson in Florence on the high-speed line.
The unions accepted the minister's proposal to promote negotiating tables on the sector, but on today's strike they were adamant, explaining that "the reasons for the mobilization all remain valid".
Workers' representatives ask more investments in the field, unlocking construction sites – now stopped for a long time – e competition regulation. The latter is a need felt above all in the aviation sector, in which, according to the trade unions, the low cost airlines and they increase atypical contracts, i.e. those signed outside the bargaining between workers' representatives and companies.
Fridayindeed, it will be up to the air transport workers to go on strike, from 10 am to 14 pm. Alitalia staff had announced a 24-hour strike, but the Ministry of Transport has issued an order to reduce the strike to just four hours. "It is unacceptable - writes the Federation of pilots and flight attendants - the attitude of closure on the numerous unresolved problems of Alitalia".
