A meeting was held yesterday morning (Tuesday 28 December) in San Marino between the Secretariat of State for Labor and the managers of the Autonomous State Company for Public Services and trade unions on the subject of the increase in bills, which had already been foreseen from the start. 2022.

The representatives of the San Marino Union of Workers reiterated that if from one point of view it is understandable that a tariff adjustment is necessary over time, on the other, average increases are acceptable, in a single intervention, presumably, of 30 – 35% of the users. . “Unfortunately, the confrontation did not go the way we hoped – we read in a note from the USL – on the one hand, the company has entrenched itself behind the fact that it is absolutely necessary to intervene as there have not been high prices in San Marino for many years and also that the market for electricity, water and gas prices, at an international level, is literally gone mad with disproportionate increments “.

The government, on the other hand, accuses the USL note, “hides behind the fact of having to take note of the Authority’s decisions” and at the request of the union “to intervene urgently to calm prices and distribute the increase over several years, glissa”.

The union fears a “fast and strong economic recession in the country” caused by the rise in bills which is added to future pension cuts, wage increases and the rise in prices. “We do not want to go into the merits of why a company like AASS, flagship for the country and always profitable, today closes its balance sheet with a loss, but we express the most absolute opposition to the choices that were illustrated to us in the today’s meeting, decisions that do not take into account the serious period of economic crisis that many families are going through, also due to the pandemic that unfortunately still grips many countries “, concludes the Usl note.