Ports, logistics, transport of goods: the first day with the obligation of the green pass in all workplaces could also become the first of the great chaos, with Italy semi-paralyzed by strikes and blocks of production categories and from the demonstrations already announced for Friday in dozens of cities by those who oppose the instrument imposed by the government to push as many Italians as possible to get vaccinated. A climate of constant tension on which there is the utmost attention by the Interior Ministry which, in agreement with Palazzo Chigi, has given clear indications to the security systems. Also because the line, is the message that government sources continue to reiterate, does not change: we go ahead with the green pass.
Yesterday evening the Prime Minister stressed that chaos is not expected, there are no marked alarms in view of Friday, there are no fear of empty supermarkets and blocked ports. Only tomorrow will we know whether the impact of the obligation in the workplace will lead to an increase in vaccinations or a surge in requests for tampons to be met. But the government believes it has put in place all the tools to allow companies to manage controls and workers to be prepared, even by controlling the price of tampons. Furthermore, the protests seem to be attributable - it is reasoned - to a few, also because vaccination has exceeded the 80% threshold. In the meantime, every effort must be made to prevent possible dangerous situations, with careful monitoring of all those environments most at risk,including chat and social. Furthermore, the right to express one's opinion will always be guaranteed, but there will be as much firmness towards those who wish to take advantage of the protests to cause unrest or block the country.
The most problematic situations, and net of the hundreds of initiatives announced on the Telegram channels where the dispute has been fueled for months, are those affecting ports and road transport, where 90% of the goods circulating in Italy travel. Leading the protest of the dockers is Trieste, where out of 950 workers 40% do not have a green certificate: after the march on Tuesday that drew ten thousand people against the green pass and the leaders' decided no to any attempt at mediation - rejected at The sender was also the recommendation of the Interior Ministry which urged companies to provide free tampons to staff, among other things strongly criticized and branded as "a sensational mistake" by Federlogistica - the scenario is quite clear.
"If they do not remove the certificate, on Friday the blockade of the port is confirmed", the spokesman for port workers Stefano Puzzer has been repeating for days. In the other airports, in reality, the situation is less tense, but no one can say with certainty what will happen on Friday. In Genoa, for example, where the percentage of those who do not have a pass is around 20%, the protest of trucks at the most important terminal is underway and the RSU are fighting for the supplementary contract and have rejected the economic proposal of the company, confirming the strike. "The real problem is transport - says Uil leader Roberto Gulli - 30% of drivers are vaccinated, there is a risk of chaos". In the Ligurian capital, however, they found a meeting point on tampons, explains the head of the camalli, the 'consul' Antonio Benvenuti:dockers will be able to do it at a further reduced price thanks to an agreement with two pharmacies. According to what the unions say, there should be no problems in Naples and Salerno as well as in Ravenna, in the ports of Puglia and in those of Livorno and Piombino.
In Palermo, only 7% of the 450 workers are not vaccinated. "there are no risks of compromising operations" says the president of the companies that manage the services. But if the ports represent the tip of the iceberg below, cascading, there are a series of sectors at risk. Transport first of all, with the president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio Paolo Uggè who uses words halfway between the alarm and the threat.
"If foreign hauliers can come to Italy without the pass and this will instead be imposed on Italian companies, we are considering inviting companies to stop the trucks. We have no answers from the ministry and if this attitude continues, anything can happen". It will then be necessary to see what will happen in factories and large companies - at Elettrolux, where 23% of the 1,430 employees do not have a pass, an 8-hour strike has already been announced - and in public transport companies. In Rome, for example, the Orsa union has made some calculations: to create problems in the metro and local trains it is enough for 5-10% of the staff to be absent. And in Atac the percentage of unvaccinated travels between 10 and 20%.
The other aspect that worries is the demonstrations. On the no pass chats in the Telegram channels, hundreds of them are announced, almost everywhere, including Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome, a stone's throw from the palaces of power. Initiatives "from dawn onwards, peaceful, spontaneous and non-partisan". This was discussed in the Committee for public order and security, in order to avoid a new black Saturday: it was decided to intensify the prevention activity, strengthening both the control of the territory and of the network and social networks and an increase in the supervisory measures to sensitive objectives was arranged, starting with the institutional offices. But at the center of the meeting there was also the appointment that worries the most at the moment, the G20 summit scheduled for 30-31 October in Rome.In addition to an impressive deployment of police forces there will also be 500 soldiers and an antidrone system will monitor the skies of the capital. Measures that, probably, will not prevent large sectors of the city from being declared a red zone.
