Grass-roots unions confirm train strike from 03:00 Thursday to 02:00 Friday

Italy's grass-roots unions on Tuesday

confirmed a train strike from 03:00 Thursday to 02:00 Friday

after failing to see their demands met at the transport

ministry.

Workers at railway companies affiliated with CUB Trasporti and

SGB will strike from 3:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 11, to 2:00

a.m. on Friday, June 12, "in support of the platform for a

national collective bargaining agreement that adequately

protects the rights, safety, health, and wages of all railway

workers."

The unions called for the strike against the "black hole" of

tenders and "unbundling within the railway system and against

the company/signatory system that is destroying Mercitalia," the

two unions stated.

The protest comes after the big three confederated unions

suspended their eight-hour railway strike on June 11, related to

tenders for Intercity services.

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