by In Trieste
Once again the city of Trieste is in the world news, this time as our city’s port workers threaten to stop all work on Friday, 15 October, when the new Green Pass rules come into force.
“If the Green Pass obligation in the workplace is not withdrawn, activity in the port of Trieste will come to a halt” – the longshore workers’ spokesman Stefano Puzzer told Huffington Post – adding that similar actions would spread to “Genoa and almost all ports” in Italy.
From Friday, 15 October the Green Pass will be compulsory for all workers, in both the public and private sectors, in a move affecting around 23 million people.
Puzzer said that in Trieste “40 per cent of the dockers are not vaccinated, but 850 workers out of a thousand joined the protest”, adding that “economic damage, if there is any, will be caused by the stubbornness of the Italian government alone by maintaining this criminal measure.”
The president of Trieste’s port, Zeno D’Agostino called the revolt “ridiculous” and promised to resign if the protests are to take on a larger scale.
The situation in Trieste presents a headache for the government as it faces a resurgence in the protest movement against the Green Pass.
