(13 Jul 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome - 13 July 2022
1. Various of taxi drivers protesting, firecrackers exploding and protesters blocking the street leading to government office
2. Various of protesters shouting (Italian) "Those who do not jump are Mario Draghi"
3. Taxi driver holding smoke flare
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Enzo (no last name given), taxi driver:
"We don't want Uber to enter Italy. They are an international corporation that is not even paying taxes in Italy, they pay taxes abroad, while we pay taxes in Italy and they want to starve us."
5. Firecracker exploding
6. Various of protesters chanting and firecrackers explodingin street
7. Various of police blocking street leading to government office
8. Protesters and banner reading Turin taxi
9. Taxi drivers and trade union members chained to a fence in front of Italian government office
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Riccardo Cacchione, taxi driver union representative:
"We chained ourselves here yesterday at lunch time. It is almost 24 hours that we are here. It is not a walk in the park for sure, but it is our duty to do it as we are the representatives of the workers of public transportation service, who are seeing their work humiliated and their rights undermined. We will never give up on this."
11. Various of protesters chained to fence
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Riccardo Cacchione, taxi driver union representative:
"We don't want to either leave our customers in the hands of the algorithms and also leave our workers jobless."
13. Various of protesters chained to fence, chain and padlock
14. EU and Italian flags on the facade of Italian government office
15. Port workers joining the taxi drivers' protest
16. Port workers holding banner reading (Italian) "Workers and taxi drivers united in the struggle"
STORYLINE:
Italian taxi drivers took to the streets of Rome on Wednesday to protest the Italian government's possible opening to multinational companies in the public transportation sector.
The protesters urged the government to change article 10 of the draft bill on market liberalization, which is currently discussed at the Italian Parliament and which they consider disadvantageous.
Rage among the taxi drivers mounted as an international conglomerate of investigative journalists, including The Guardian, revealed Uber executives and their lobbyists allegedly pressured European governments between 2014 and 2016.
Hundreds of drivers gathered in front of the Italian Government Office, Chigi Palace, and some of them shouted slogans against Prime Minister Mario Draghi and threw some firecrackers in the streets.
Police cordoned off the area around the government office and blocked the protesters.
A few demonstrators and some unionists managed to reach the governmental palace and organized a symbolic sit-in, chaining themselves to the fence in front of the building.
"We don't want to either leave our customers in the hands of the algorithms and also leave our workers jobless," said Riccardo Cacchione, coordinator of the taxi drivers union USB, referring to Uber, as he continued to protest chained to the fence.
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