with the extra-profits to calm the bills and settle the arrears
On Friday in Turin, the district heating citizens returned once again to the garrison in front of the Iren building to ask that the extra profits of the multi-utilities be used immediately to settle the arrears and calm the bills.
Against the dizzying increases in bills, the requirements are clear: regulation of a specific and calm tariff, reduction of VAT to 5%, republishing of energy services, moratoriums on past debts and elimination of the dispersion quota from the bill.
The determination and anger with which district heating have continued to organize and mobilize parties since February, even self-suspending the payment of the bill, demonstrating that there is a part of the country that is no longer willing to passively accept the generalized increase in the cost of living and the parallel of income and salaries.
Simultaneously with the Turin garrison, an assembly was held in Genoa with district heating citizens to organize themselves and start a process of fighting against expensive bills.
While from 1 October the financial electricity bills are still 60% and a 75-80% increase in the gas tariff is on the way, due to speculation and the war escalation fomented by the Euro-Atlantic bloc, the whole parliamentary period continues to prove to be subordinate to multinationals that despite billions of extra profits have already begun to cut off the utilities to those who are unable to pay.
In the face of the continuous attacks on the purchasing power and social rights of precarious workers, pensioners, the unemployed and large social groups, a popular opposition to the war economy of the Draghi agenda – to which even the new adventurers of Palazzo Chigi have already prostrate – it seems to be ready to spread and claim rights and dignity.
As USB we address this part of the country and invite them to mobilize on Monday 3 October on the day of international struggle launched by the World Trade Union Federation against the high cost of living!
On 3 October in many Italian cities we will take to the streets in front of the headquarters of the energy companies of their major shareholders to denounce the social rights that these entities continue to pursue.
In Turin the appointment is at 12.30 in front of the Eni Store in Corso Regina Margherita 223.
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