The feared stop of Italian road haulage, proclaimed from next Monday, March 14, by road haulage companies at national level “due to force majeure” was rejected by the Guarantee Commission for the strike. With a communication the Commissioner Delegate of the Commission Alessandro Bellavista, brakes on the possibility of starting the mobilization. The information sent to Trasportiunito-Fiap, and the Ministries of Infrastructures and the Interior notes the «failure to comply with the notice period of 25 days» and refers to the «obligation to predetermine the duration of the abstention».
The announcement of the protest, in recent days, had caused fear of the blockage of goods, especially food products, and fuel supplies, so much so that throughout Italy – also due to the alarm about possible further increases – there was a race to the purchase of pasta, sugar, flour, oil and rice, with rows of cars at the petrol pumps, with real scenes of collective psychosis in Sardinia, where entire shelves have been emptied in some supermarkets and some distributors have remained temporarily out of fuel.
“Since no trade union organization has proclaimed anything, we are not talking about a strike but a lockout announced by the owners of small trucking companies – the general secretary of Filt-Cgil Sardegna Arnaldo Boeddu tells ANSA – the problem of expensive fuel is there. is and the reasons for the protest can be shared because the inconvenience is spread throughout the supply chain up to the final consumer but structural solutions are needed from the government starting with the abatement of excise duties. Furthermore, in Sardinia there is the peculiarity that all goods travel by road and therefore the price increases are higher. Here then is that the Region can put in place some refreshments but that must go to companies that correctly apply the contractual rules also in the field of workers’ safety and health ».