1,129 strikes in 2023, almost 40% in transport - guarantor

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 18 - Italy had 1,129 strikes in 2023, almost 40% of them in the transport sector, the national strike guarantor said Tuesday.
    In 2023 there was a "substantially stable trend compared to the previous year" with 1,649 strikes proclaimed (1,618 in 2022) of which 1,129 were 1,129 were carried out (one more than in 2022), and "in sharp decrease on a ten-year basis (2,330 proclamations in 2012, with 1,375 strikes carried out)", said the president of the Guarantee Commission for the implementation of the law on strikes in essential public services, Paola Bellocchi, in her annual report.
    Of the 1,649 strike calls, 639 were in the passenger transport sector (air, rail, maritime, local), with 449 strikes made (almost 40 per cent). (ANSA).