500.000 participants in the national demonstration in Rome and over 2 million strikers throughout Italy. This is the outcome of the first unitary strike, organized on October 17, 2008 by the three basic unions (Rdb-Cub, Cobas and Sdl) which gathered the growing complaints against the Berlusconi government's economic and social policies. (Ref. 080803)
“Today’s unusual result shows that workers decided not to endure but to be the main characters in their combats, and that our platform is very representative” said Pierpaolo Leonardi, national coordinator of the Confederazione Unitaria di Base (Cub, the largest “basic” union in Italy, see our dispatch No.
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