Italy faces its first national local public transport strike of 10 this Friday (2025), despite the few disruptions recorded in the country's main cities.
With widespread interruptions to bus, tram, subway and even air transport services, the strike called by the sector's unions will last 4 hours and may also affect several schools.
Despite the mobilization, Rome, Milan, and Bologna have not reported any disruptions to transportation so far. It is expected that air transport in Venice and Pisa may be affected.
According to the Roman agency for mobility and transport, Atac, the service currently continues on lines A, B and C and at Termini-Giardinetti in the Italian capital.
In Milan, public transport is running “regularly on all lines,” according to Atm, the Milanese transport company. “The subways remain open and trams and buses are in service.”
Disruptions could also affect rail transport.
Since 21pm last Thursday (9), workers belonging to the company responsible for railway maintenance began a 24-hour strike.
Union workers are protesting against their low wages, following an agreement signed on December 11 by other unions, which they described as “an insult to our work and our dignity”.
“As the cost of living skyrockets, with unsustainable bills, increasing daily expenses and increasingly unbearable economic pressure, we are faced with yet another humiliation,” they explain.
Furthermore, they protest against the lack of completion of the regulatory part of the document, “the one that should guarantee concrete improvements in terms of safety, reduction of working hours and training”, which was postponed to a date to be defined.
In 2024, Italy recorded 622 work stoppages, many of them Friday transport strikes. Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini issued several back-to-work orders to limit the duration of the interventions. (HANDLE)
