Strike today without guarantee bands, from Rome to Milan metro closed. Here are the guaranteed services

"The right to strike is sacrosanct, but it is unacceptable to proclaim a wild and unprotected mobilisation for those who need to move, care, study or work. Too many Italians, today, are in difficulty because the baffling CGIL is praising the social revolt on Friday". Thus MIT sources in a note in which they add: 'On the front line of the fight against crime, with particular reference to stations and trains, MIT is in the front line as witnessed by the investments and results of FS Security. Minister Matteo Salvini will no longer allow irresponsible minorities to boycott Italy'.

"Today we held a meeting with the unions: on Tuesday we will convene a round table with the employer side, with the Ministry of Labour and Finance as well, to address the issue of the renewal of the sector's contract at the national level and also on other issues structurally related to the management of the tplpl". This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Transport, Edoardo Rixi, at the end of the meeting with the delegation of the striking public transport unions. Rixi explains that 'the request from the Ministry is starting now'.

The trade unions can do so on the basis of the regulations on the right to strike, which provide for the use of this form of extreme protest only once on the occasion of the renewal of the national collective labour agreement: the Strike Guarantee Commission recalled this, adding that even in the absence of the so-called guarantee bands, minimum services must be guaranteed to users on the basis of the regulations in force.

In particular, during the time slots that will be decided at local level, urban and extra-urban transport services will be ensured by using 30% of the travelling personnel, connections to airports, railway and maritime stations will have to be guaranteed in the first place, and all the personnel assigned to specialised services of particular social importance, such as transport for the disabled and school bus transport for nursery and primary school pupils, will have to be kept on duty.

In Rome, the agitation affects the Atac network, including lines operated by other operators on behalf of Atac and peripheral lines operated by Autoservizi Troiani/Sap and Autoservizi Tuscia/Bis. On the night of 7 November, the service of night bus lines (lines whose names begin with 'n') will not be guaranteed, while Atac will guarantee the service of daytime lines that have scheduled runs beyond midnight. For Friday, Atac has identified a number of essential services that will be guaranteed during the strike in the traditional legal bands (from the start of daytime service to 8.30 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.): part of the metro service, part of the surface service with particular reference to connections between the suburbs and metro stations on the main routes and the lines serving the hospitals and Ciampino airport.

In particular, on Friday from the start of the daytime service at 8.29 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. only the A and B metro lines and 48 surface service lines (indicated on the Atac website) will be guaranteed. Other connections, in the event of staff joining the strike, will not be operated. On the surface network, 50 connections are guaranteed: 49 bus lines and one tram line (the list is indicated on the Atac website), but some of these may operate a reduced service compared to the normal weekday schedule. For the tram network, lines 3 and 19 and substitute bus lines 2, 3, 5, 8, 14, always during the traditional guarantee periods.

In Milan, Atm announces on its website that all subways will be guaranteed but limited to certain times and only some surface lines. In particular, the M1, M2, M3, M5 lines and the M4 San Cristoforo-San Babila route are guaranteed until 8.45 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., while the M4 San Babila-Linate route is guaranteed all day long. As far as buses, trams and trolleybuses are concerned, only some lines are guaranteed at certain times of the day: trams 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 24 and buses 45, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 74, 81, 90, 91, 95 and 98 are guaranteed until 8.45 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All other lines (including the B10 and B12) are not guaranteed, said Atm. Also at risk is the night transport on Thursday night 7 November. The 90/91 trolleybuses will run normally while after one o'clock the night network buses, including the NM1, NM2, NM3 and NM4 lines, are not guaranteed. On the other hand, after 1.00 a.m. on the night of 8 November, the 90/91 trolleybuses and night buses, including the NM1, NM2, NM3 and NM4 lines, are guaranteed. Until 8.30 a.m. the Como-Brunate funicular will be open.

"Although the guarantee bands are excluded from the proclamation of strike by the OO.SS., in compliance with the regulations in force, the minimum urban, suburban and extra-urban public transport services in the Bologna and Ferrara basins will be carried out, to the extent of 30%, from the start of the service until 8.30 a.m. and from 4.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., giving priority to connections with railway stations and services of particular social relevance". This is clarified by Tper, the company that provides public transport services in Emilia. The "Marconi Express" service - explains the company - will be operated with only one shuttle bus in the time slots from the beginning of the service to 8.30 am and from 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm; due to the strike, the service will not be guaranteed in the remaining part of the day.

In Naples, too, the service will be severely restricted and the Azienda napoletana di mobilità has announced the guaranteed bands. As far as the metro Line 1 is concerned, the service will only operate on the Policlinico - Garibaldi section. But be careful, because the train will only stop at the Policlinico, Rione Alto, Municipio and Garibaldi stations. In the time slot 06:30 - 09:30 there will be departures from Policlinico (06:35 - 07:05 - 07:35 - 07:55 - 08:15 - 08:55- 09:15), from Garibaldi (07:10 - 07:40 - 08:10 - 08:30 - 09:00 - 09:30 - 09:50) while between 17:00 and 20:00 from Policlinico (17:05 - 17:35 - 18:05 - 18:25 - 18:55 - 19:25 - 19:45) and from Garibaldi (17:40 - 18:10 - 18:40 - 19:00 - 19:30 - 20:00 - 20:20). Metro Line 6 will only stop at the stations of Mostra (07:16 - 07:58 - 08:40), Mergellina and Municipio (07:36 - 08:18 - 09:00). As far as surface transport is concerned, the guaranteed lines between 6am and 9am and between 5pm and 8pm are Alibus - 116 - 130 - 151 - 175 - 196 - 254 - 412 - 421 - R2 - R5. "The performance of all the other lines will depend on the adhesion to the strike," Anm announces, also informing of the adhesion rate of the previous strike, on 9 September, when 44% of the staff joined the agitation.