The grassroots USB union has called a 24-hour general strike for Friday, 28 November 2025, covering both public- and private-sector workers. Transport operator EAV, which runs key commuter rail and bus lines in Campania, has warned passengers of “likely significant disruption” across its network. Similar notices are expected from Trenitalia, Italo and urban transit agencies in Rome and Milan over the next 48 hours.
As required by Italian law, minimum “fasce di garanzia” will operate between 05:30-08:30 and 16:30-19:30, but long-distance intercity trains and regional services outside those windows are at high risk of cancellation. Business travellers heading to Naples, Pompeii industrial zones or the Flegrei data-centre corridor should consider same-day car-hire or video-conferencing alternatives.
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USB says the strike protests stagnant wages, overdue back-pay for Sunday shifts and rising living costs. The action comes less than two weeks after separate walk-outs by air-traffic controllers and ground handlers that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights, underscoring a volatile industrial-relations climate as year-end wage talks peak.
Companies with expatriate staff or project teams in Italy are advised to trigger travel-disruption protocols: allow flexible work-from-hotel arrangements, pre-book taxis for critical airport transfers and inform visitors of EU Regulation 261/2004 rights if flights are affected by knock-on delays.
Travellers can monitor line-specific updates on operators’ websites and social media; however, staffing-level uncertainties mean definitive timetables may not be published until late Thursday.
As required by Italian law, minimum “fasce di garanzia” will operate between 05:30-08:30 and 16:30-19:30, but long-distance intercity trains and regional services outside those windows are at high risk of cancellation. Business travellers heading to Naples, Pompeii industrial zones or the Flegrei data-centre corridor should consider same-day car-hire or video-conferencing alternatives.
USB says the strike protests stagnant wages, overdue back-pay for Sunday shifts and rising living costs. The action comes less than two weeks after separate walk-outs by air-traffic controllers and ground handlers that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights, underscoring a volatile industrial-relations climate as year-end wage talks peak.
Companies with expatriate staff or project teams in Italy are advised to trigger travel-disruption protocols: allow flexible work-from-hotel arrangements, pre-book taxis for critical airport transfers and inform visitors of EU Regulation 261/2004 rights if flights are affected by knock-on delays.
Travellers can monitor line-specific updates on operators’ websites and social media; however, staffing-level uncertainties mean definitive timetables may not be published until late Thursday.
