Greater than 1,000 ATAC employees utilized to behave as voting scrutineers however solely 70 bought permitted.
Rome’s public transport firm ATAC has averted a mobility disaster on the day of Italy’s basic election after greater than 1,000 members of its employees, together with 915 bus and metro drivers, utilized to function voting scrutineers this weekend.
ATAC administration had obtained 1,159 functions from staff to avail of their proper to hold out electoral duties on Sunday 25 September and the next two days, stories newspaper Corriere della Sera.
In the long run nonetheless ATAC solely permitted 70 of those requests – state broadcaster RAI stories – after the corporate’s new CEO Alberto Zorzan wrote to Rome authorities explaining that not solely would town face a public transport disaster however that voters could be unable to succeed in polling stations.
Throughout the European elections in 2019 greater than 1,000 ATAC staff, together with 758 drivers, availed of their proper to take part as voting scrutineers, resulting in much-reduced transport providers within the capital.
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