General strike in Tuscany, 15,000 in Massa against security packages

A regional general strike called by Cgil Tuscany halted public and private sectors for the entire day, including outsourced services. Trains, buses and school activities were affected by the disruption provided for by the union mobilization.

The high point of the protest was recorded in Massa Carrara, where about 15,000 people demonstrated as part of the initiative titled “Protest is not a crime”. The march combined two distinct but related levels in the organizers’ claims: opposition to the measures known as the “Security Packages” and solidarity with the people who were summoned to trial after a demonstration held on October 3, 2025 against the conflict in Gaza.

The strike is part of a series of union mobilizations that in recent months have combined labor demands with political stances on public order issues and freedom to demonstrate. The regional scale of the initiative — not an isolated local dispute, but a shutdown extending across all of Tuscany — signals a level of mobilization that goes beyond the contingency of a single territory.

The link between the protest over the Security Packages and the judicial affair tied to the 2025 march shows how, a year after that demonstration, the issue remains a ground for public confrontation between union organizations and institutions. The choice to tie a general strike to an ongoing judicial proceeding indicates that the matter has not been exhausted in the immediate aftermath of last October’s events, but continues to be a point of reference in Tuscan union demands.

At the moment, there are no official statements from institutional or employer counterparts on the specific contents of the protest, nor official assessments of the disruption caused by the strike to regional public transport.