“Working is a right and we must reclaim it”. Mery Pellanda is an entrepreneur from Codigoro, in the Ferrara area. At 46, in August 2019, she embarked on the adventure of “Area 51”. A gym for fitness and bodybuilding in the Pontemaodino area. He didn’t know what would be unleashed shortly thereafter. The pandemic, the lockdown, then the recovery and now the new Dpcm that weighs like a boulder on its business, which has just turned one year old.
Also for this Mery is not there. “The gyms are safe places, I am in compliance with all the health protocols, which is why I have decided that mine will remain open”, he tells us on the phone. “This morning the carabinieri came, surrounded the shed and could not contest any irregularities”, he goes on. “The associates – he tells us – train outside, in the open air”. This is where Mery has positioned machinery and equipment. “The decree allows it – he insisted – for that we will remain open, for the good of sport and also because we already have too many debts”.
She is determined to continue like this until mid-November. “I’m not a violent person, I don’t go out into the streets to break windows, I make my protest from my workplace, but I can assure you that I won’t stop until Conte retraces his steps or someone comes here to put my handcuffs“, she attacks. She feels betrayed by the government.” They gave us a week to comply and then they told us to shut down, but are they making fun of us? ” security and months without earnings, but we must continue to pay taxes – he vents – and also bank loans “.
Prime Minister Conte’s “promises” no longer believe in it. “But what refreshments? I’m worth zero for the state, I was also excluded from the bonus for leases and I don’t even know why, given that the government does not communicate the reasons”, she comments. “In recent months – he tells al Giornale.it – I tried to do it alone, but a gym that has been open for a year and a little more has a lot of debts, I can’t afford the luxury of closing my doors and waiting for someone to come down from heaven to pay them next month “.
“I hope my colleagues do something,” he says referring to demonstrations of the operators of the sector that would be scheduled tomorrow in many Italian squares. “There is too much fear of the state, of the fines, of the sanctions of what will happen tomorrow – he concludes – but tomorrow, if we continue to be silent, for many of us there will not be”.
If you too are among the “victims” of the government’s decision, tell us your story with an email to [email protected] and indicate in the subject “Working is a right, reopen the gyms”.
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