General strike on Friday, CGIL and UIL confirm 8 hours in transport. Salvini signs precepts

Cgil and Uil confirm the eight-hour strike in passenger transport as part of the general strike on Friday 29 November against the budget manoeuvre. And Minister Salvini signs the precept to reduce the duration of the protest to four hours in local public transport and air transport. The meeting at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport between Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and CGIL and UIL, convened as part of the cooling-off procedures under Law 146, ended in a deadlock. The Strike Guarantee Commission and then the MIT had asked to reduce the duration to four hours in passenger transport.

In their response, CGIL and UIL 'confirm the general strike of 29 November in the terms and with the articulations' already indicated in the proclamation. From the stop the unions had already excluded rail transport. "Despite the formal and informal meetings that have taken place over the past few days," write the general secretaries of CGIL and UIL, Maurizio Landini and Pierpaolo Bombardieri, in a joint note, "and despite the openness to dialogue manifested by CGIL and UIL, which have already complied with the law, exempting the rail transport category from the strike, the Guarantee Commission has obeyed Minister Salvini's diktats, published systematically on social networks and through the press, continuing to make further demands for the restriction of the right to strike'.

The Guarantee Commission had asked for an intervention by the minister Matteo Salvini to reduce to 4 hours in passenger transport the duration of the various general strikes called for Friday 29 November by a number of trade unions, the most relevant being the stoppage proclaimed by CGIL and UIL. The resolution of the Authority chaired by Professor Paola Bellocchi paves the way for a precepting intervention by the minister. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, in fact, had expressed 'satisfaction' and immediately let it be known that the minister is 'determined to intervene so that the inconvenience for citizens is contained and will do everything possible to achieve the objective'. Minister Salvini then sent the unions a request to reduce the strike to just four hours.

In a resolution, the Guarantors emphasise the concentration of a plurality of strikes, some of which have already been indicated as illegitimate, noting that such a thickening causes 'serious and imminent harm to constitutionally protected personal rights'.

The intervention of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, according to the Guarantee Commission on the right to strike, would serve to 'limit within a tolerable threshold the prejudice of citizen users'. In this regard, it should be remembered that Minister Salvini himself had announced on the occasion of the last general strike of local public transport the possibility of intervening with a precept, precisely to protect the right to mobility.