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The service stations stop from the afternoon of Monday, December 14 until the morning of Thursday, December 17. Trade associations denounce: “Inexplicable not benefiting from soft drinks, dramatic losses”: Consumer protest
A strike was called at the gas stations from the afternoon of Monday, December 14 until the morning of Thursday 17. The stop, which will affect both the ordinary network and the highway network, was announced in a joint statement by the different commercial organizations: Faib Confesercenti, Fegica Cisl and Figisc / Anisa Confcommercio.
“Dramatic losses and no soft drinks”
“The decision – it is written in the note – was made necessary by the inexplicable unwillingness of the Government to include the small and very small management companies to which the plants are entrusted, among the categories that benefit from the support measures included in the different Decrees. Refreshments ”, the last of which reached Parliament a few days ago after the approval of the Government after the approval of the new budget variation of eight billion (RISTORI QUATER, LAS MEASURES).
“The distribution of fuels – highlighted by the operators of the sector when announcing the decision to close the plants – is classified as an essential public service, having to guarantee, even in current and past emergency circumstances, the continuity and regularity of the activity, in the interest of the community, to allow the movement of people and the transport of all kinds of goods ”. It follows from this – Faib Confesercenti, Fegica Cisl and Figisc / Anisa Confcommercio explain – that managers, in addition to suffering dramatic contractions in their rotation as a consequence of mobility restrictions and the night curfew, have no possibility of containing the considerable fixed costs required to keep the distribution business available to the public. “
“Forced closures due to lack of liquidity”
A condition, they denounce, “which, in these days, is causing uncontrolled and forced closures in the area, due to the lack of liquidity and the impossibility of acquiring supplies of products.” According to the unions, these circumstances, these “events, are the prelude to the almost gradual bankruptcy of the small management companies, with dramatic repercussions on the levels of employment in the sector that employs – they recall – almost 100,000 people.”
Consumer protests
The decision of the gas stations to implement a lockout on the roads of the Peninsula makes consumers stand up. “It is an illegitimate strike,” thundered the National Union of Consumers, urging the intervention of both the Guarantor of the strikes and the Government, which must “immediately summon” the parties. “Although the reasons for the gas stations can be shared, it is absurd to exclude them from the Ristori decrees, it is clear that by closing the plants, the gas stations are going the wrong way”, underlines Massimiliano Dona, president of the UNC. For Codacons the strike is “illegal” and will cause “immense inconvenience” to the citizens. The association will present “an immediate complaint” to the Guarantor and also asks that the workers be injured.
