Taxis, strike and protests in Rome against government and multinationals' apps. Salvini summons them to the Mit
Upon his arrival at the static presidium in Piazza Capranica, the demonstrators harshly challenged the president of +Europa and the Italian Radicals, Matteo Hallisey, who is in favour of liberalising the sector
Underway since this morning throughout Italy is the national strike day for taxi drivers called by the main white car unions, including Federtaxi Cisal, Fast Confsal Taxi, Uil Trasporti Taxi and Filt Cgil. The participation, underlined in a note by the trade unions, "is almost total": "The service is practically at a standstill throughout the country: now the competent institutions - the note continues - should listen to the requests that come from the workers in the sector, concluding as soon as possible the process of reform of the sector, in order to have certain rules for operators and digital platforms, to fight the phenomena of abuse and protect the right to mobility of users, at a certain and controlled price, not at the mercy of algorithms owned by multinationals".
In the taxi drivers' crosshairs, in particular, is the Dpcm on the regulation of digital intermediation platforms for non-scheduled mobility services, such as Uber - a pillar of Salvini's reform of Ncc services - put on standby by the ministry after a series of critical observations arrived from the European Commission during the regulatory confrontation procedure envisaged by EU regulations. Pending the publication of the Dpcm, the strike promoters point out, the digital platforms operate in the absence of certain rules, fostering tension between the Ncc operators and taxi drivers.
Tension at the garrison in Rome, Hallisey (Radicals)
The day of strike, articulated in a series of local demonstrations all over Italy in large cities, including Milan Bari and Genoa, also saw a white car procession from Fiumicino to the Bocca della verità, near the Campidoglio, in Rome, where the drivers parked their taxis and then continued on foot to the static presidium organised in piazza Capranica. Here, upon his arrival, the president of +Europa and the Italian Radicals, Matteo Hallisey, was strongly protested by the demonstrators, who then approached Piazza Montecitorio.
'We wanted to ask questions and have a dialogue, on the other side there is a wall. Anyone who disagrees with giving even more privileges to taxi drivers is not considered an interlocutor, on the contrary,' Hallisey commented, referring to the protests he received on the day of the national strike in the taxi sector. A demonstration, he added, organised "against the 'bad' multinationals that already operate in all the main European capitals and only in Italy must have enormous constraints because of this lobby of 25,000 people". A category, 'we have seen from the latest data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which invoices an average of 1500 euros gross. We are also talking about a large phenomenon of evasion that nobody talks about. We think it is right for politics to deal with it and finally decide to rid us of this lobby,' he concluded.
In the afternoon, the taxi drivers' demonstration in front of Montecitorio continued, watched on sight by the police who manned the area, sifting through images to identify those responsible for throwing large firecrackers, some of which were exploded as Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was entering the Chamber for a briefing on the Crans-Montana massacre and the situation in Venezuela after the US blitz and the kidnapping of President Maduro.
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