Uffizi, pay days increase 25 . Unions protest (but not over the increase itself)

The Uffizi increases the number of days with a 25-euro admission fee, consequently reducing the number of days visitors can enter at a reduced price. The new pricing policy, which includes a dual seasonality (high season at 25 euros full, low season at 12 euros), had come into effect in January: high season was in effect from March 1 to October 31, low season from November 1 to February 28. In recent days, the Florence museum has tweaked the two seasons: the high season is brought forward to Feb. 21 and extended to Nov. 9, thus nibbling a couple of weeks off the low season. But that’s not all: two more weeks are subtracted from the low season, those of the Christmas holidays (Dec. 21 to Jan. 9), which will be considered high season.

In essence, the low season now lasts from November 10 to December 20, and resumes from January 10 to end on February 20. That is 81 days of low season (two and a half months, basically), versus nine and a half months, 284 days, of high season. Roughly one month more of high season than previous policies. The morning promotion, however, remains unchanged, whereby those entering the high season between 8:15 and 8:55 a.m. are entitled to a six euro discount.

The increase in the number of days on which full price is charged has caused the unions to rise up, and they issued a note in the past few hours not to protest the increase itself, but to suggest that the museum improve conditions for workers in the face of expected increases in revenue. The note, signed by Rsu Opera, Filcams Cgil Firenze, and UilTucs Toscana, reads, “It would seem [...] that with a stroke of a pen a decision can be made to significantly increase the revenues of the company that will be awarded the new tender for museum services, but when it comes to writing solid protections to ensure that the contractual, employment and salary levels of workers are maintained in the new entrustment, that same pen jams. For Filcams, UILTuCS Toscana and RSU Opera this is Unacceptable. It is time for some of the huge revenues from tourism to finally end up also improving the conditions of the workers.”

Uffizi, pay days increase 25 . Unions protest (but not over the increase itself)

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