Rome: Italy prepares for national protests, blockades and potential Friday interference as a new coronavirus limitation that is strong for workers to take effect.
All workers must show what is called Green Pass, offering evidence of vaccination, recovery recovery from Covid-19 or negative tests – or faces that are declared not present without payment.
More than 86 percent of Italians over 12 years old have received at least one Jab, thus automatically qualify for certification.
But up to three million workers are not known – and most will only be able to work if they pay for their own tests every 48 or 72 hours, depending on the type.
They include a large number in the shipping industry – and with a lot of anger at the new rules and refuses to obey, there are worries of extensive economic disorders.
Ivano Russo, Director General of Confetra, a trade group, told AFP that of a total of 900,000 truck drivers, couriers and warehouse staff employed by members of his lobby, “25-30 percent” did not have a Covid certificate.
Dock workers in Trieste, the main center in the northeast, has threatened to strike without limits, even if it was offered a free covid test.
The same privilege has been extended to several port workers in Genoa, in the northwest.
“The real problem with the green pass for the port of Genoa, in general for all ports, will be a transportation road,” Roberto Gulli from the Uil Trade Union told the La Repubblica newspaper.
“There might be chaos on Friday.” However, more than 560,000 Passes Green is downloaded on Wednesday, according to government data, shows that the emergence of new rules increases vaccination.
The government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi has defended the Green Pass as a way to avoid further locking in Italy, where the economy is expected to record nearly six percent of this year’s growth after a recession that is induced by a terrible covid.
The ministers seemed impossible to admit to calling free Covid tests for all, but the ANSA news agency reported that they were considering greater tax damage to companies that pay for them.
Anti-pass protests are also expected in Italy on Friday, but the government hopes to avoid repeating demonstrations last weekend in Rome which declined to be the clash of inflamed violence by remote militants.
The trade union on Saturday also plans an anti-fascist rally.