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Genoa, the fourth day without bus. Employees of AMT, the transport company controlled by the municipality, they decided to continue the strike indefinitely total that had paralyzed the city in the last 3 days. The reason: the breakdown of negotiations with the mayor Marco Doria. So far, remained standing at almost 600 thousand people. Beppe Grillo took to the streets with the protesters, to show his solidarity with the workers of Amt protesting against the possible privatization of the public transport of Genoa.

Beppe Grillo, M5S leader, speaking to the AMT workers on strike, said: “This is a point of no return. I am even more pissed off than you. If I come here they are exploited, because I want the votes, but I do not want the votes of anyone. I live in this city “and change” must start from this city. “

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The Authority

Warranty for strikes wrote to the Amt of Genoa to take “urgent information on sudden abstentions from the service, from the day of November 19.” In particular, it asked, “to clarify the possible role and responsibilities in the organization of the protest by trade unions in the company.”
The Authority, at its meeting of Monday, November 25, “will discuss what is happening in Genoa, in order to consider the adoption of the sanctions provided for by law. “

city, in fact, in the early hours of dawn began blocks in remittances and 9 am, the hall calls to the port, is currently meeting of workers from the possible privatization of the company. Demonstrations planned today could create further disruption to the movement, already congested with complete blockage of the lines. The protest also should unite the workers of the port and other companies owned by the municipality.

“Genoa is the spark of a fire that will spread throughout Italy. Now they have to be the general unions to spread the flames in the other cities. ” He said Andrea Gatto, trade unionist Faisa / CISAL, leader of the protest which led to a four-day general strike of public transport in Genoa. Closing the meeting of the municipal workers, the union observes: “Many politicians have asked to join our protest, we must avoid exploitation and walkways, this is and should remain a protest of the streetcar. If politicians want to march with us are welcome, but microphones and cameras if you go looking somewhere else, especially those who want to destroy the union. ” “So far the police – he concluded – made a quiet supervision of the protest but could not always be so. We must be careful not to do acts that lead us only damage, it is necessary to make a service order. We do not want to throw bombs or break walls. “

At 17.30 in the prefecture of Genoa was fixed a comparison table between the City, the Region of Liguria and trade unions on the future of Amt, the public transport company of Genoa. This was announced by the union representatives after the meeting with the governor Claudio Burlando in the headquarters of the region. Some workers have questioned the union for asking to suspend the protest until the meeting scheduled in the prefecture. Several hundred protesters remained to guard the palace of the Region in Piazza De Ferrari.

a meeting of the Amt employees also participated in a delegation of bus drivers in Rome. “The question of Genoa – said Danilo Caruso, the FILT / CGIL Roma-Lazio – is a national issue. The workers are victims as citizens. ” “From Rome we are proud of you and we want to bring forward a proposal to pay for all train drivers’ Italian fines resulting from the injunction,” added Caruso, addressing the workers of Genoa. Messages of support also came from Livorno and other Italian cities. “We have the people on our side – said Antonio Vella – not only in Genoa, but throughout Italy. Now we need to avoid dangerous infiltration and vandalism. For us there are no colors, we only streetcar. ” The protest, it would reveal internal sources, it may move to Rome as early as next Monday.

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