Black Friday strikes at Amazon warehouses in Italy and Germany
Political turmoil inside CGIL
The CGIL is Italy’s largest confederation of trade unions (secretary: Susanna Camusso) and includes as a member FIOM, the metalworkers’ federation (general secretary: Maurizio Landini; former president: Giorgio Cremaschi). Tension has been growing between CGIL and FIOM for some time and although there have been reassurances that all is well, it is obvious that all is far from harmonious.
Italian unions sign up to the repression of trade union rights
It should have been just the implementation decree for the 31 May agreement but it has turned into a new agreement, with an even harsher level of repression against workers’ struggles.
Left wing extremists harass CCU strike leaders
Confederated unions and industrialists sign anti-strike agreement
May Day protests against union confederations
Hospital workers fight police in Milan
March of discontent: lessons in work struggles (Italy)
Lionesses of Cisanello: workers’ victory in times of austerity
Cleaners at the Cisanello hospital in Pisa picketed their workplace for over three months, from October 2012 to January 2013. They were protesting the proposed cancellation of 78 jobs to comply with the cutbacks to healthcare spending. Their determination earned them the nickname of "lionesses," several tensions with local high ranking members of their union, and, eventually, victory against the contracting firm. Their resistance and solidarity shows that workers can still win in times of austerity.
Permanent general workers’ assembly in Ilva after the lockout of their plant
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