Petrol, managers on strike on January 25 and 26: “Enough of this wave of mud”

Strike by petrol stations at the end of the month: from 19.00 on 24 January 2023 to 07.00 on 27 January 2023. In the midst of a fiery week for the fuel sector – with the rise in prices following the end of the excise discounts, the accusations cross of speculation and Prime Minister Meloni’s own goal who ruled out having promised a new cut in the tax levy forgetting his program – the announcement of the pump managers’ strike arrives.

Faib-Confesercenti, Fegica, Figisc-Confcommercio explain in a note that «to put an end to this “wave of mud” against a category of honest workers and try to restore the truth, the managers’ associations, jointly, have taken the decision to proclaim the state of agitation of the Category, throughout the network; to launch a counter-information campaign on the plants and proclaim, for the days of 25 and 26 January 2023, a first strike action, with a garrison under Montecitorio “.

«The Government – reads the note from the three organizations – increases the price of fuel and unloads the responsibility on the Managers who become the recipients of insults and swearing by exasperated motorists. A shameful media campaign has been launched against the category. Then a state of agitation was declared throughout the network and a strike against the behavior of the Government. A garrison under Montecitorio is announced. The traffickers of illegality who operate in tax and social security evasion and who subtract over 13 billion euros a year from the Treasury are beatified. To put an end to this “wave of mud” against a Category of honest workers and try to re-establish the truth, the Associations of Managers, together, have taken the decision to proclaim the state of agitation of the Category, throughout the network; to launch a counter-information campaign on the plants and proclaim, for the days of 25 and 26 January 2023, a first strike action, with a garrison under Montecitorio. The impression that the category has drawn from this story is that of an Executive looking for resources to cover its political responsibilities, without even having the courage to put its face on the choices made and knowing full well that the Customs Agency, the Mimit and the Revenue Agency already have the knowledge and availability of data on movement, fuel prices and the reliability of daily communications provided by the category. It is a media scam to which the trade organizations intend to give answers with the mobilization of the managers ».

In the communication to the Commission for Guaranteeing the Implementation of the law on the strike in essential public services, the organizations speak of “irresponsible and unusually serious political actions against an entire category of honest economic operators who base their activity on a fixed margin per liter of 3 gross cents per litre, guaranteeing the State, at its own risk and peril, in some cases of life, an income of about 40 billion a year in proceeds».

The hypothesis of a strike had already made its way on Wednesday, following the measures launched by the Council of Ministers on the transparency of the price of fuel in service stations, after the wave of price increases recorded since the beginning of the year. The associations represent around 16,000 of the 22,000 managers of refueling points scattered along the national road and motorway network. Defending the decree, which provides for the obligation of transparency on the daily price compared to the national average and a ceiling for petrol stations on the motorway, Meloni had said on his social networks: “Most petrol stations are honest and responsible and we must intervene to protect them In cdm we have decided to strengthen the sanctioning rules for those who fail to comply with the communications required by law and we have established that every petrol station should display the average daily price”.