{"id":44946,"date":"2026-01-12T18:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/italy-taxi-drivers-to-strike-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:28:24","slug":"italy-taxi-drivers-to-strike-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/italy-taxi-drivers-to-strike-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy taxi drivers to strike on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Taxi drivers to\u00a0protest in Rome on day of strike<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0Taxi drivers in Italy are to stage a national strike on Tuesday 13 January to demand\u00a0stricter regulations\u00a0for multinational ride-hailing apps,\u00a0\u00a0trade unions\u00a0have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial action, called by 18 unions representing cab drivers, is scheduled from 08.00 to 22.00 and will involve all regions except Umbria.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi drivers are set to protest in Rome on the day of the strike, with a convoy of 50 taxis leaving Fiumicino airport at 08.00 and heading to Piazza Bocca della Verit\u00e0 before drivers stage a sit-in near parliament, newspaper\u00a0<em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>In an implicit reference to Uber, unions say that taxis are part of &#8220;a regulated public service, with fares set by the city, inspections, safety requirements, and clear responsibilities toward users&#8221;, claiming that this model is being challenged by &#8220;the aggressive entry of private multinationals aiming to replace a public service with platforms driven by algorithms and profit-driven logic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unions said they are\u00a0striking &#8220;to defend a safe, transparent and fair public service that belongs to the city, not to companies operating in tax havens&#8221;, with a series of demands including greater action against illegality, and stiffer rules regulating technology platforms, &#8220;preventing the excessive power of algorithms&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxi drivers to\u00a0protest in Rome on day of strike. \u00a0Taxi drivers in Italy are to stage a national strike on Tuesday 13 January to demand\u00a0stricter regulations\u00a0for multinational ride-hailing apps,\u00a0\u00a0trade unions\u00a0have confirmed. The industrial action, called by 18 unions representing cab drivers, is scheduled from 08.00 to 22.00 and will involve all regions except Umbria. Taxi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[20303,2547,5943,484,27093],"class_list":["post-44946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-drivers","tag-italy","tag-strike","tag-taxi","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}