Italian postal service, workers on strike today: which services are at risk

Italian Post Office strike today, Tuesday 3 June 2025. The CGIL and UIL categories of the postal sector have proclaimed a nationwide strike to demand rights and wages for workers and to denounce the company attitude that, by nullifying confrontation and denying pluralism, calls into question democracy itself in the largest private company in the country

The strike affects all ordinary services for the entire shift. For overtime, additional and supplementary services, on the other hand, the protest will continue until 2 July 2025. However, 'the planned essential services will be guaranteed,' a note from Poste announced. The mobilisation could have an impact on the payment of pensions, scheduled for today, 3 June. Mail and parcel deliveries and shipments, as well as payment services via postal slips, are also at risk.

Commenting on the agitation, Maurizio Landini, secretary general of CGIL, and Pierpaolo Bombardieri, secretary general of UIL, said they were "on the side of the workers", explaining that "it is a matter of great concern that Poste Italiane, a publicly controlled company that aspires to play a central role in the economic and social development of the country, is silencing dissent and seeking the shortcut of separate agreements to maximise profits and not respond to the just demands of the workers". "We would not like - they add - that this was a strategy to prepare for the further privatisation of the Poste, announced by the government and always opposed by us".

'The role and history of Poste Italiane,' add the General Secretaries of CGIL and UIL, 'impose a paradigm shift on the company management. There are not only shareholders' interests: the group's excellent economic results must be matched by better working conditions and salaries for Poste Italiane's workers, who make a decisive contribution to achieving those results. Moreover, the severe rationalisation of postal counters, which, especially in the inland areas and on the outskirts of our country, is depriving citizens, often the most fragile, of a garrison that guarantees access to indispensable services, is unacceptable'.