(Finance) – I taxi drivers’ unions they confirm it national strike scheduled for todayTuesday 21 May, with an abstention from service from 8am to 10pm. In Rome, an authorized demonstration will be held Piazza San Silvestro, from 11am to 5pm. Taxi drivers ask the government certain rules for the sector. An abstention from work, the last one dates back to July 2022, which brought together almost all the unions and acronyms.
“Is critical the participation of the entire category in defense of their workto counter the illegitimate use of rental authorizations and safeguard one’s autonomy and independence from the slavery of algorithms and multinationals”, explain Fast-Confsal taxi, Satam, Tam, Usb-taxi, Unica-Filt Cgil, Claai, Uritaxi, Uti, Unimpresa, Orsa-taxi, Ugl-taxi, Federtaxi-Cisal, Sitan Atn, Unione Artigiani.
“Ours is not and must not appear to be a corporate defense, we will also take to the streets to protect users – points out the national manager of Ugl taxi, Alessandro Genovese – Today users can in fact count on certified tariffs, tomorrow, without adequate implementing decrees and therefore without rules it is not certain: if the demand for taxi and chauffeur services grows, the multinationals’ algorithms skyrocket; in emergency situations or natural disasters, prices, as we have seen, have risen by up to 400%”. And he underlines that “in February the ministers Urso and Salvini had called us to define the adequate implementing decrees with the commitment to approve them by April. But some meetings at the Mise, where the vice president of Uber Tony West was received, and some statements at question times gave us the impression that everything is still, while due to the multinationals operating in big cities, deregulation is there for all to see.”
For the coordinator ofUsb Riccardo Cacchione “the overall attitude of the majority in this last period has triggered our alarm: the interference that Uber has imposed on politics is nothing newand therefore what is in effect a stop to the comparison and a rebound between different ministries requires us to go directly to a confrontation with Prime Minister Meloni. We strongly ask that the majority conclude the discussion with our category and we ask that the adequate implementing decrees, which have been pending for 5 years now in the ministries of Economic Development and Transport, which define the rules and constraints to protect public transport, be approved as soon as possible “. For the national secretary of CGIL taxi, Nicola Di Giacobbeto improve the availability of taxis it would be enough to apply existing laws which “have always allowed administrations to issue new licenses”.
TO criticizing the strike, speaking of “uselessness, is the Codacons, “citizens will not feel any difference compared to any other day of the week because taxis are already usually unavailable in the main Italian cities”. For Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union, it is the “usual unmotivated strike and preventive to maintain caste privileges”. For Assoutenti it is an “absurd and unmotivated strike”.