This is different. on the website that lists the country's planned strikes for October there are at least 20 strikes. But these are just individual cities or regions. Sometimes they last for four hours, sometimes 6, 24. And things still run. The trains run during the hours when people need them to get to and from work. In Venice the Coast Guard drives the vaporetti. It's more of an aggravation or inconvenience. A sciopero nazionale is different. It is to, "bloccare il paese," or shut the country down. No flight, no trains to one town or another, etc.