Italy: almost a million and a half took part in the national strike organized by the CGIL

The CGIL is satisfied with the mobilization it launched against the government's economic policy to face the crisis. However, the government, employers and its rival union federation, the Cisl, minimize this success. (Ref. 081018)
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Almost one and a
half million people took part in the general strike of December 12, 2009
organized by the largest Italian union, CGIL, to request “more work, more pay,
more pension and more rights” and object to the government’s “inappropriate”
measures to face the crisis (see
our dispatch No. 080949
). The confederation counted 108 demonstrations
throughout the country in spite of heavy rain and the fact that a state of natural
disaster was declared in several regions (including Rome), which l

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