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Courier dies during delivery on the day his contract expired

From ANSA · () Italian

Translated from Italian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Pasquale Andriotta, a 42-year-old courier working as a subcontractor for BRT, died during a delivery in Piacenza.
  • His fixed-term contract expired that day, and colleagues reportedly said he feared it would not be renewed.
  • Filt-CGIL said workers at the BRT subcontractor site in Piacenza-Caorso were on strike over rising workloads, staff shortages and increasingly demanding shifts.

Pasquale Andriotta died at 42 while making a delivery in Piacenza, on the final day of his fixed-term contract with a BRT subcontractor.

The Filt-CGIL union said Andriotta’s contract "expired precisely today" and that colleagues reported he feared it would not be renewed. The union identified him as a courier employed through the subcontracting company Afs Service.

expired precisely today

— Filt-CGILThe union described the date on which Andriotta’s fixed-term contract ended.

His death came as workers at the BRT subcontractor operation in Piacenza-Caorso were on strike. Filt-CGIL said the action followed a state of unrest declared on Friday.

The union attributed the strike to "growing workloads, staff shortages, increasingly heavy shifts and an organisation now considered unsustainable."

growing workloads, staff shortages, increasingly heavy shifts and an organisation now considered unsustainable

— Filt-CGILThe union cited these conditions as the basis for the workers’ strike.
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Originally published by ANSA in Italian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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