Italy: CGIL calls for general strike on May 6th

“We’re already starting with a series of initiatives, and it will be a large mobilization across the country.”  This is how Susanna Camusso, CGIL general secretary, announced, yesterday March 3rd, the general 4-hour strike on May 6th with territorial demonstrations.  The separate agreements for the renewal of the CCN in civil service and services (see our dispatch No.  110142) as well as Fiat’s agreements, were the elements that led Camusso to this decision, even though so far she had been reserved in spite of the Fiom’s repeated call for this strike.  This will be the CGIL’s 5th general strike under the Berlusconi administration.
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the elements that led Camusso to this decision, even though so far she had been reserved in spite of the Fiom’s repeated call for this strike. This will be the CGIL’s 5th general strike under the Berlusconi administration.

Grounds. The political document approved by the steering committee states the need to “bring work and development back at the center, reconquer a unitary conventional system, stop the practice of separate agreements, reduce unemployment, combat precariousness, extend social

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