Rome, 18 July 2022 – Revoked the taxi strike of 20 and 21 July. This was decided by the national assembly of taxi drivers’ unions: in today’s meeting it was considered more appropriate to wait for the developments of the government crisis, which blocks the disputed reform, to assess the developments, and in the case new forms of agitation.
A statement from the trade unions reads: “The overt government crisis in progress, with which the work of parliament and in particular of the Industry Commission of the Chamber of Deputies are interrupted, where the question of the reform of the taxi sector should be addressed has been deemed appropriate revoke the national stop of the service. Pending developments relating to the current crisis situation, the representatives of the sector will meet again in the coming days, in order to maintain a high level of attention on the approval of Article 10 of the Competition Bill, and to evaluate any new forms of protest with the proclamation of a new strike “.
The note concludes by reiterating the positions of the sector: “We have no intention of granting any blank proxies to no government, to intervene in the sector and for us the only way forward is that of the excerpt of article 10, all the more so in light of the numerous and shameful mixes that are emerging thanks to the Uber Files investigation, between institutional environments and pressure of various kinds, professional firms, businessmen, pseudo-liberal think tanks, so that the rules of the taxi sector are rewritten in favor of the powerful American multinational “.