Public transport, in Emilia the unions ask for the “air stop”



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BOLOGNA – Strike in sight for bus drivers in Emilia: trade unions challenge the decision to reopen the front door of the vehicles, considered too close to the driver’s seat. According to local public transport companies, it can be done because this way the interior of the vehicle is more ventilated and drivers are protected by a Plexiglas ‘barrier’. This tranquility, however, has not convinced the acronym of the workers who respond: open the entrance door but prevent users from going up from there. At each stop that door would also open, but only to give air inside. However, this proposal was not approved, hence the decision to go on strike as soon as possible.

Tper and Seta, explains Maurizio Buzzoni (Faisa Cisl), wanted to reopen the entrance door by putting Plexiglas to shield the drivers from the passengers, but “in our opinion they are insufficient for the health safety of the workers and this fact, together with overcrowding, because the distance is not maintained on the buses, which makes that environment very dangerous for infections. ”It was better when the front door was closed and a distance of one square meter had been established between the seat of the This ‘separation’, says Buzzoni, while it existed “guaranteed the continuity of local public transport because the percentage of infections among drivers was 0.0%.” Now, however, things are not like that absolutely.

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