December strikes: timetable and assumptions in the transport sector
"Oppositions who talk about a limited right to strike have some problems with mathematics," says deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini
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'If they don't use common sense', I will resort 'to the criterion of guaranteeing for the penultimate Friday before Christmas a clear day'. This is how the minister of transport and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini (video) did not close to a possible precept for the new strike announced for Friday 13 December, after that of Friday 29 November for the general mobilisation organised by Cgil andUil against the manoeuvre. In fact, several protests are announced for the second half of the month.
General strike on 13 (except planes)
The 13 December strike announced by the Usb unions (with Cobas, Usb private work adhering) is a general strike for which, with the exception of air transport, the public and private sectors will stop. In particular in trains, the planned lockout is for 24 hours, from 9 p.m. on 12 December to 8.59 p.m. the following day. As for local public transport, the blockade (of the whole day) will have different applications on a territorial basis. Taxis will cross their arms from 00:01 to 23:59 and in the maritime sphere 24 hours for the smaller islands, while for the larger islands the stoppage will begin one hour before departures.
The 15th articulated initiatives
.On 15 December it will be the turn of the aviation sector. Several protest initiatives have been announced by several trade unions and for various categories of workers in the sector. ENAV Milan ACC personnel (RSA FAST-CONFSAL-AV), ENAV Malpensa CA personnel (RSA FAST-CONFSAL-AV), Techno Sky Milan ACC, Linate C, Monte Settepani CRT personnel (RSU), Aviation Services personnel of Catania Fontanarossa (OSP UGL-TA), ENAV Parma airport personnel (FILT-CGIL, UILT-UIL) will not work for 4 hours in the 1pm to 5pm slot. As for Techno Sky personnel, the strike (FILT-CGIL, UILT-UIL) proclaimed will last 24 hours nationwide (00:01-23:59).
The political controversy
.All this while the political controversy over the right to strike itself is not extinguished. 'Any form of precepting is a closure and a violation of a constitutional right,' Uil secretary general Pierpaolo Bombardieri said bluntly on 1 December. 'Get your hands off the right to strike, which is written in the Constitution,' Pd leader Elly Schlein also insists. But Salvini does not back down. "It is clear that the right to strike is protected by the Constitution and also by common sense, so much so that," he says, "there have been almost a thousand strikes since the beginning of the year. The oppositions that speak of a limited right to strike have some problems with mathematics'. And he raises.
