Unatras, the unitary body that represents over 90% of the Italian road haulage companies, expressed the most deep condolences to the family of the truck driver run over and killed today on the A1 motorway, in the Caserta area, during the demonstrations for the increase in the cost of fuel called by the acronym Trasportiunito.

In a note, Unatras denounced that "the arrest in which this tragedy has taken place, it has been proclaimed by an associative acronym completely unrelated to Unatras, which acted in unilaterally ignoring the Commission's formal invitation to Guarantee on strikes to revoke their initiative - motivated the violation of the mandatory minimum notice and the failure to compliance with the rule of objective rarefaction, i.e. the prohibition to concentrate several stops in the same sector in a span restricted timeframe, pursuant to Law 146/1990. That acronym - continues the note - was fully aware of the impossibility to proceed: the proclamation made just 20 days after the communication to the Commission - compared to the 25 mandatory for law - constitutes a deliberate violation, not an error procedural. A behavior that exposed workers to risks that the legislation existed precisely to prevent, and that Unatras considers unacceptable. For these reasons, Unatras communicates that it does not intends to sit at the same institutional table with those who have demonstrated that it does not respect the fundamental rules of confrontation, and asks the Guarantee Commission and the authorities competent to apply the sanctions provided for by Law 146/1990".

Stressing that he had instead operated with rigor and liability, with 25 days' notice communicated to the Guarantee Commission, Unatras has confirmed the national shutdown of road transport which has been scheduled from 00:01 of 25 May to 24:00 on 29 May. "We Let's address the Government clearly: the time for answers - explains the note of Unatras - is over. The category has been asking for months for concrete compensatory measures against the unsustainable increase in the cost of fuel. We hope that the Government recognises the fundamental role of road transport for the national economy and open a serious discussion, with whom the rules respect".