Italian Truckers general strike December 9th – December 13th
Today, Monday December 9th, hundreds of striking truckers joined the Pitchfork (Forconi) Movement to block or slow transportation in a number of cities in Italy. Members of the movement are protesting against high fuel prices and taxes.
Italian transport minister Maurizio Lupi on Sunday warned the government would not be soft with the projected one-week protest, set to disrupt bustling pre-Christmas commerce. “It should be clear that truckers who tomorrow intend to strike do not have a request presented to the transport ministry that justifies them,” said Lupi in a note. “The government will firmly oppose any form of violence to guarantee security for citizens and the protection of their rights”.
The Pitchfork Movement was started by farmers and truckers in Sicily a couple of years ago, and led to a massive truckers’ protest in the second half of January 2012 that paralyzed traffic and goods shipments all the way up the Italian peninsula, stripping food from grocery shelves, creating other stock shortages and causing millions of euros worth of damage.
To read more from Gazzetta Del Sud
On Monday December 9th 2013
- Genova port is blocked
- Napoli port is blocked
- La Spezia port is semi blocked, entrance to port very slow
- Venezia port is not blocked, but truckers trying to disturb the traffic at the Padova and Vicenza highways and we still do not know if such disturb will be move at port direction or not.
- Ravenna port is not blocked and regularly operating.
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