The FIM, FIOM and UILM unions
representing Italian metalworkers on Thursday demanded that the
nation's factories be closed until March 22 because of the
coronavirus.
Although Italy has intensified its lockdown measures,
factories have been allowed to continue operating as long as
workers can have a security distance of at least one metre from
each other.
Some factory workers in northern Italy went on wildcat
strikes Thursday because they are unhappy about this situation.
A very high proportion of workers in the Piedmont provinces
of Asti, Vercelli and Cuneo walked off the job Thursday at Mtm,
Ikk, Dierre and Trivium works, the FIOM CGIL union said.
There was also a strike near Brescia in Lombardy.
The unions said in a joint statement that the factories
should be closed until Sunday, March 22, to allow for the
premises to be "sanified and put into conditions of security"
with the reorganization of work places to make sure they are
safe.
They said that if these demands were not met they would
strike for "as long as necessary" adding that the workers are
"quite rightly scared".
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