October 3, 2025 will be a day of strong inconvenience for those who move. The CGIL and the USB have proclaimed a national general strike in response to the Israeli tanning against the humanitarian flotilla directed to Gaza. The mobilization will involve all public and private sectors, with particular impact on the transport sector, starting from the railway system.
The strike will start at 9 pm on Thursday 2 October and will continue until 8.59 pm on Friday 3 October. However, the service groups will be guaranteed from 6 to 9 and from 18 to 21, while the trains already left before the start of the agitation will be able to reach the final destination if within one hour of the start of the stop.
The motivations of the protest
CGIL defined the attack on civil ships “an act of extreme gravity“Which puts workers’ security at risk and violates international law. For the union led by Maurizio Landini, what happened is”An attack on Italian constitutional principles“And an obstacle to a humanitarian mission of peace.
The USB also speaks of “unacceptable aggression“And invite”block everything“, Combining workers, citizens and solidarity organizations with protests. The mobilization, therefore, does not only concern the world of work but becomes a symbolic action in support of the Palestinian population exactly as happened last September 22.
Processions and manifestations announced
Next to the strike there are spontaneous events, processions and also occupations in different Italian cities. In Rome and Milan they have already been announced gatherings, while in Naples the protest touched the railway station and the university was busy.
The metalworkers of Fiom also joined the mobilization, which speak of an action necessary for “stop the genocide in Gaza“And they ask the Italian government to block commercial and military agreements with Israel, as well as officially recognizing the state of Palestine.
Salvini evaluates preceding
On the political front, the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini is evaluating the preceding premises to limit the inconvenience to citizens. The dicastery claims that the motivation given by the unions does not fall among the cases that justify a strike without notice and the leader of the League has assured that “A minority will not be allowed to block the country“.
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