Overview
- Drivers from roughly 20 unions plan to stop service from 8:00 to 22:00 across most of Italy, with Umbria excluded.
- In Rome, organizers set a convoy from Fiumicino through Piazza Bocca della Verità to Montecitorio, where a static protest is scheduled at 11:00.
- Unione Radiotaxi d’Italia and the itTaxi consortium will not join and say they will guarantee service after reassurances from Transport Committee chair Salvatore Deidda and lawmaker Alberto Ruspandini.
- Participating groups say they seek implementing decrees pending since 2019 and clearer rules for platforms such as Uber to protect the taxi’s regulated public-service model.
- URI president Loreno Bittarelli blames strike promoters for today’s regulatory gap, citing their past opposition to the 2019 Scurria-Maffoni amendment on predetermined tariffs.