In reply to a call by Fiom, the metals branch of the CGIL union, roughly 15,000 Italian turned out onto the streets of Rome on Saturday March 28 to protest increasing insecurity in the jobs market and to oppose the Renzi Government’s Jobs Act. However more was at stake as an internal war rocks Italy’s major union to its very core.
Will he? Won’t he? This demonstration operating under the slogan “Unions” was the first mass protest since December 2014 against the Jobs Act (c.f. article No. 8788) – a framework law reforming the labor market that creates an employment contract type of indefinite duration with increasing levels of social protection and which will also implement a minimum wage- and observers scrutinized as much the attitude of the CGIL secretary general during the march as the scope of the actual...
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