Overview

• The stoppage will last eight hours on Saturday, leaving many watchtowers unmanned during peak beach hours.
• A two-year-old Emilia-Romagna ordinance abolished lunch breaks and doubled each lifeguard’s patrol area from 150 to 300 meters of coastline.
• The Prefecture has labeled the strike illegal and may still order minimum service levels but has not decided on enforcement.
• Beach operators have declined to organize alternate coverage and will treat the day as a normal workday.
• Protesters will march from Bagno 36-37 to Piazzale Boscovich at 12:30, and tourists are urged to exercise caution on unsupervised stretches of beach.