Bologna City Hall employees went on strike with two separate marches. The mayor met with them.

Bologna, November 6, 2025 – In Bologna The municipal employees' strike, called by the unions, has taken place, demanding more resources for staff wages . But the workers—approximately 500, split evenly in two— deployed into the streets in two separate marches, both departing from Piazza Liber Paradisus and aiming for the Piazza Maggiore area. On one side, the FP-CGIL, FP-CISL, and FPL-UIL unions; on the other, the SGB, CSA, SNATER, USB, COBAS, and ADI unions.

Separate marches for grassroots and confederate unions

The two union groups gathered at either end of the square : one on the side of Piazza Lucio Dalla and the other on the side of Via Carracci. Then the confederal unions headed toward the Maserati underpass and Via Bovi Campeggi, while the grassroots unions took Via Carracci toward the Matteotti Bridge. "We're demanding seven million euros for municipal employees," thundered Massimo Betti (SGB), five million for additional wages and two for new hires. Because beyond the council's "propaganda," Betti asserts, the situation of municipal services has become " truly tragic ."

For Marco Iacono (Fp-Cgil), "because I frankly don't understand why we should strike to have the Municipality implement a law that's been in place since March and allows for more money for additional wages": and yet Palazzo D'Accursio "hasn't allocated a single euro for this."

Mayor Lepore

More Late last week , Mayor Matteo Lepore met with the strikers: first the SGB ("The CGIL won't talk to me again after this," Lepore joked), then the confederates. A conciliatory gesture, ahead of the roundtable meeting scheduled for tomorrow. The administration " recruited the professionals it could. An unprecedented move for a municipality that has always criticized national recruitment": a sign that the council "is afraid of our strength," the FPL-UIL insisted. Turnout, however, "has already been very high." That evening, the municipality denied the recruitment: "Unfounded reports," Palazzo D'Accursio curtly remarked.