Salvini on the train and plane strike of 13 July: “Italians don’t pay”

A two-day transport strike is ready that will put the Italians to the test. Tomorrow, July 13 and the day after, workers and tourists will be grappling with inconvenience and difficulty moving on the railway network: tomorrow the staff of Trenitalia, Italo and Trenord will cross their arms. The trade unions of the category Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Orsa Ferrovie and Fast Confsal have instead proclaimed a 24-hour stop until 2 am on Friday 14 July. Then it will be the turn of flights: on Saturday 15 July the black dot will be applied for air transport due to the strike by airport ground staff, handling and check-in services which will stop for eight hours: from 10 to 18. At risk, therefore, all airport services.
And the Minister of Transport and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini intervened directly on the situation. In fact, the meeting between Salvini and the trade unions has just ended at MIT. The news comes directly from ministerial sources and the issue of strikes was at the heart of the matter. And in a note, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, led by Salvini, “will do everything to ensure that the Italians do not pay too heavily for the mobilization”. The ministry says so in a note with respect to the strike on Thursday in the railways and on Saturday in the airports. «Salvini hopes for a reasonable agreement between the parties and is ready to open a table tomorrow at Porta Pia. The interlocutions of these hours should be read in this sense, even with some of the workers’ representatives “explains MIT, underlining that” as already said publicly, in the event that common sense does not prevail, Salvini does not exclude any intervention in strict compliance with current regulations ” .
Solid unions
And the position of the unions? Compact on the front of the fight. At least to hear the statements of Pierpaolo Bombardieri, secretary general of Uil: “We are for the support of those who will stop with the strike”. And he adds: «Since we are talking about a meeting tomorrow at the Ministry of Infrastructure – he points out when speaking at the celebrations of Uiltrasporti’s 40th anniversary – tomorrow’s meeting is to take stock of the Pnrr and infrastructure investments, nothing to do with the contracts . So anyone who thinks tomorrow of talking about contracts and postponing the strike is very wrong».