10.25.07

General Strike

Posted in culture, school at 5:17 am

Oh boy … tomorrow is going to be a fun day. Nearly all “public workers” have declared a strike tomorrow. Here’s a list of possible disruptions, taken from the City of Ancona website:

The city of Ancona guarantees only the following services (meaning everything else is closed):

• Registration of births and deaths
• Cemetery Services: Only administrative tasks, burials, and entombments.
• Social Services Assistance: Only emergency assistance for non-self-sufficient adults.
• Street Services: Only emergency services / stop light services
• City Police: Only tasks requested by the courts, accident prevention measures, emergency services, central dispatch, and assistance in case of a natural disaster.
• Cultural Services: Only security services (the watchman) at the library and the art gallery.
• Account Services: Payments and Social Security
• School bus for disabled students: Not guaranteed.
• Vegetable Market: Only preservation and release of perishable goods.

And here’s a list of things that might be interrupted:

• School lunches (bring a sack lunch kids!)
• Preschools
• School buses

And these are only the city services! All teachers may strike tomorrow (and they won’t tell you beforehand, so you have to take your kids to school in the morning and see if it’s open). I haven’t heard about transportation strikes, but at this point they might as well. And don’t ask me what the strike is about. It’s probably contract renewal time.

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