Despite the huge protest by the CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labor), which on Saturday 25 October united at least one million participants according to organisers, the government has no intention of altering its plans. After a meeting yesterday with social partners, the government reiterated that there will be no negotiations with trade unions on draft laws. The general strike called by the leader of the CGIL, which she announced in the concluding speech of the protest, will most likely be the union’s next step.
A million against the government’s labor policy. This was the largest trade union protest for a decade; the number of participants, at least a million according to organisers (the police have not given an estimation), exceeded all expectations. Young people, pensioners, unemployed people, workers, immigrants; men and women, from all over Italy, arrived in the capital at dawn. They were answering the call made by the CGIL, grouped together under the slogan “Work, dignity and equality, to change Italy”.
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