Italy | First Black Friday of the year: train, plane and school strike today. All times and guarantee periods

First day of strikes of 2025. Today they stop for 4 hours throughout Italy using local public transport with different times and methods from city to city. Inconveniences also in airports (where for example the workers of Airport Handling of Milan Linate and Milan Malpensa protest; as well as those of Aviation Services at Marco Polo airport in Venice) and in railways with RFI maintenance workers crossing their arms.

Possible Black Friday also for school sector with participation expected for all teaching, educational and ATA staff (hired both on a fixed-term and permanent basis) in the mobilization launched by the Csle (European Workers’ Trade Union Confederation). In local transport, Confail-Faisa stops for 4 hours to denounce “the serious economic and contractual situation faced by thousands of professionals in the sector”. The latest agreement signed by some trade union organizations, underlines the independent acronym, “represents a further affront to the dignity of workers”.

The dispute underlying the strike concerns, among other things, “low and inadequate salaries compared to the increase in the cost of living”; national collective agreements “incapable of enhancing and protecting workers’ rights”; “unsustainable” hours and workloads, which compromise the balance between private and professional life.

• In Milan – Atm communicates that, despite the strike, “all subway lines remain open even after 8.45”. Trams, buses and trolleybuses are in service
• In Rome – the agitation affects the Atac network and the peripheral lines managed by Autoservizi Troiani/Sap and Autoservizi Tuscia/Bis from 8.30 to 12.30. The service was regular until 8.29am and will resume at 12.30pm. The service will not be guaranteed between 8.30am and 12.30pm.
• In Naples – Eav announces that the 4-hour agitation on the Circumvesuviana metro lines and the Phlegraean lines is scheduled from 7.32pm to 11.32pm