The strike also has among its objectives to take a step back on the expensive bills and on a cost of living that has become unsustainable for the most unsustainable
For the moment, utility rates will not undergo further increases. From what has leaked there would have been no resolution, despite being expected for today, by the Energy Authority. Other meetings are therefore planned during the week that will see the leaders of AASS, the competent Secretary and representatives of the Government as protagonists, some moments the OOSS and the Assoconsumatori have not been contacted. The issue, therefore, remains hot and the hope is that the further increases announced will never come into force which would weigh like boulders on the citizens, already exhausted by the galloping must and which, to what extent, are not so closely linked to supplies. energetic, or at least not only. Furthermore, there are many points to be clarified in the light of what was stated in the Commission by the competent Secretary. At first, it was ‘remarked’ that the increases requested, to the extent of 104% for domestic users, actually amount ‘only’ to 54% because compared to 2021, a 50% had already been applied since the beginning of the year. more. A reasoning of this magnitude that, however, clashes with what was said immediately afterwards, when an example was the bill of a family with average consumption that if in 2021 it was 70 euros, from January 2021 it would have increased to 78 and that with the new ones it would become 226. EUR. This being the case, the percentage is not 54% but not even 104% because if we want to mention gods and not give the numbers, they turn out to be much higher! The proposed increases are really very high and it was the Secretary with proxy to AAAS himself who said in the Commission that this is “an extremely disproportionate circumstance”. It has also been said that these increases will be variable and indexed and that therefore in the event of a ‘relaxation’ of the market, there could be a consequent ‘relaxation’ of tariffs; in summary: first put your hand to your wallet then we’ll see. Reading the various resolutions of the Energy Authority it is clear that some increases, such as that of water, were proposed not for reasons linked to objective increases in the market price but to cope with the consolidation of the company’s balance sheet. A company that we remember, thanks also to energy trading, until a few years ago, despite being at a loss in services provided, was always and in any case in strong surplus; it financed itself and created profits and therefore revenue for the state. There is a strong desire to get back as soon as possible a country that does not make choices perhaps inappropriate for citizens and where AAAS returns to being a resource for the community tax and not yet another problem. The strike announced by the three trade unions, shared by UCS, has among its objectives precisely that of taking a step backwards even on the expensive bills and on a cost of living that has become unsustainable for the most unsustainable.
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