Rome, white strike to the Ama. Until June 15th, operators’ meetings and the city is getting dirtier – Il Tempo
It is a white strike in Ama. From tomorrow, and until June 15, workers’ assemblies have been called in all offices and for all work shifts. The rumor started the day before yesterday, in light of the continuous complaints of citizens and press organs on the pitiful state in which they find themselves, still the streets. And if you confirm the assemblies, from tomorrow it will be even worse. Not only is the impasse on disposal plants under accusation, which, although real, at this moment risks becoming the most classic of decoy. The problem, in fact, or rather, one of the many, is the lack of personnel and the organization of the one in service. As repeatedly reported on the pages of this newspaper, in front of about 6 thousand Ama employees, the “operatives” in the street, that is the ecological operators in all respects, those who can carry out both the collection and the disposal of waste are, in fact, about 2500. In fact, over a thousand are “partially suitable”, for health reasons and therefore cannot do heavy work and just over 300 totally unsuitable.
To all this is added the chronic hour of drivers which often and willingly forces to keep the engines spent on heavy vehicles. Then thanks to the competition for new hires, retirements and “promoted” to office jobs, here are the numbers in hand you understand why the city is spurring, not too slowly, into the umpteenth waste emergency. All of this, with a resurgence of tourism that requires an increase in collection shifts which has been ignored up to now. A pitiful photograph that acts as a counterpoint to a municipal administration which, to date, has limited itself to changing the general manager of the Ama, announcing the waste-to-energy plant and rationalizing the collection to cover shifts with the few staff available. Little, compared to a year of government and above all with the number one problem to be solved. There is no news from the “Ama di Municipio”.
And it is of little use to move the garbage collectors from the periphery to the center, to prevent, once again, the images of a capital sunken by waste from starting to go around the world again, with a shame that the Romans do not deserve, especially on the eve of the expiration of the payment of the waste tariff. Not even the thousands of tourists who are invading the Eternal City deserve it and who often find themselves forced to eat in bars in the center with garbage bags next to them. It is no coincidence that Confcommercio and Federalberghi have also raised their voices this time. The Capitol is silent, only a timid statement by the mayor Gualtieri on the fact of “being at work to find alternative outlets to the Aprilia Tmb”, already the one that by contract closes ten days for maintenance. By contract, in fact. In short, smoke in the eyes.