Naples gravediggers protest unpaid wages and lack of safety equipment, disrupting cemetery services for three days

Naples cemeteries are facing a three-day disruption due to a protest by gravediggers over unpaid wages and lack of safety equipment. The gravediggers, employed by cooperatives, are holding assemblies and threatening a strike because they haven't received salaries or holiday bonuses for months and lack proper personal protective equipment. The city's Cemetery Assessor, Vincenzo Santagada, has called for the urgent internalisation of these workers, a process already underway, to ensure service continuity and workers' rights.