“We’re not an uncomplaining country” declared Susanna Camusso, Deputy Secretary-General of the CGIL, during the interminable demonstration in Bologna (100,000+ participants according to the CGIL), on the occasion of the June 25 general strike, launched by the biggest union confederation in Italy against the government’s economic maneuver (see our dispatch No. 100467). In the civil service, there was a 24-hour work stoppage, 8 hours in metalworking and Lombardy, and four hours in other private sectors. “Refusing to pay for the crisis,” hundreds of thousands of workers – one million according to the CGIL – mobilized across the country, except in piedmont, Tuscany and Liguria where the general strike will be held on July 2nd. Susanna Camusso (who was filling in for the leader, Gugliemo Epifani, in Canada for the second ITUC Congress) declared, “With such a turnout, we can change the country,” pointing out that the CGIL isn’t as isolated as the government claims. However, the Civil Service Minister, in his sector, there was a 4% turnout. Because of this “low turnout rate,” the Minister wished that this mobilization were “the last 20th century strike in Italy, with a problematic ideological approach.”
here the general strike will be held on July 2nd. Susanna Camusso (who was filling in for the leader, Gugliemo Epifani, in Canada for the second ITUC Congress) declared, “With such a turnout, we can change the country,” pointing out that the CGIL isn’t as isolated as the government claims. However, the Civil Service Minister, in his sector, there was a 4% turnout. Because of this “low turnout rate,” the Minister wished that this mobilization were “the last 20th century strike in Italy, with a p
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