Security alarm on the buses of the local transport company of Nuoro . The unions, through Fit Cisl, are asking for «on-board cameras, body cams for staff and stinging sprays supplied, but also training courses for all transport company employees and awareness campaigns in schools, in the mass media, on social".
«Incidents involving drivers and mobility personnel are frequent», explains the deputy secretary for the provinces of Nuoro, Oristano and Ogliastra, Simone Porcheddu, «at the end of August a driver was attacked by a motorist who, after a verbal argument , blocked the bus and beat him. Another report", he continues, "came from some female workers from the same company who were verbally threatened while carrying out their shift".
This escalation is worrying, claims the trade unionist: « Completely sporadic and isolated episodes in a pre-covid world of work have multiplied, also following a strong social and economic crisis, of a tension that cannot and must not be reversed on workers."
Porcheddu, together with his secretarial colleague Luigi Sedda, wrote to the leaders of the Nuoro ATP to urge "interventions aimed at discouraging attackers and protecting their workers". The company is asked to equip the buses with perimeter dash cams (on-board cameras), panic buttons (the 'red button' to be pressed in case of danger), body cams and sting spray for the operators on board the ATP vehicles, courses training for all employees in contact with the public, a company welfare system that ensures legal protection and safety for employees, zero tolerance company policies against any form of violence against company workers, the possibility of a direct that from public transport raise the alarm directly to the operations centers of the police and provide surveillance on board the buses.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
