Tevere Tpl's employees announced a new 24-hour strike on Monday June 11, to ask for better working conditions. The topics of security, payment, and worsened working conditions are fueling a union conflict in a private urban transportation company connecting the fringe to the center of Rome. However, the social climate is also tense on the lines still managed by public companies in which employees denounce the policy of costs reduction since the opening to private providers in 2000. (Ref. 070509)
Strikes at Tevere Tpl. Born in 1999 to guarantee the specific lines made necessary by the year 2000’s Jubilee, the company won in 2001 the public offer of the 71 bus lines connecting the fringe to the center of Rome, that is to say 20% of the regional transportation. Left-wing parties are denouncing a third rate allocation of the public market (the company would receive 2.36 euros per kilometer for this service) with exhausting working rhythms and employees also suffering from an economic dispa
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