(8 Nov 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 8 November 2024
1. Various of people waiting at bus stop at train station
2. Various of bus full of passengers waiting to leave
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luana Cantoro, visitor:
“We came here for a meeting that she had to attend yesterday. Today we took a day off to visit the city but unfortunately we are stuck here, we hope for a bus to arrive soon.”
4. Various of people waiting for bus
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Paolo Gennaro, student:
“I couldn’t go to the university, there was no possibility. Right now in Termini station the situation is this because we are in the city centre, all the buses are going in different directions, above all for the tourists. I saw many of them who didn’t know what to do, in fact I will have to take a taxi soon because it is the only possibility I have.”
6. Taxi collecting people in front of the train station
7. Tourists checking map
8. Wide of people waiting for bus in front of train station
9. Various of the demonstrators waving flags, using air horns
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Salvatore Pellecchia, General secretary of FIT CISL transport union:
“We have two emergencies. The first one is represented by safety, you know, that in this sector we are noticing a escalation of violence. We can’t let this happen again. The workers must come back home in one piece. So we are asking for the implementation of a protocol written in 2022 that contains a series of actions about prevention, legislative innovation but also repression violence acts.”
11. Demonstrators waving union flags
12. Close of union banner
13. Various of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Residents and tourist in the Italian capital were seen waiting for hours at Rome’s Termini station on Friday as transport workers held a 24-hour strike which brought nearly all busses, trams and local trains to a halt.
Hundreds of transport workers gathered in front of the Ministry of Public Transport as they took part in the strike, organised by Italy’s major transport unions, calling on the government to renew work contracts and make safety improvements for staff.
Unions said they are urging the government to implement various measures to prevent and stop violent acts against transport workers.
"We are noticing a escalation of violence," Salvatore Pellecchia, General secretary of the FIT CISL transport union said at the demonstration.
"We can’t let this happen again. The workers must come back home in one piece.”
The strike left many stranded in the capital.
"I couldn’t go to the university," student Paolo Gennaro said.
"All the buses are going in different directions… I will have to take a taxi soon because it is the only possibility I have.”
AP video shot by: Paolo Lucariello
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