Yesterday, the three Confederal unions of Tuscany did a symbolic walkout to commemorate the 7 Chinese workers who burned on December 1 in the warehouse where they worked and lived in Prato, the second largest city in Tuscany. This disaster once again lifted the veil over the immigrant workers’ working conditions in illegal “enclaves,” spreading in Italy because of clandestine immigration and the crisis. Unions denounced the responsibility of those who “know but said nothing” and the lack of controls following budget cuts. They call on the government to improve actions against unlawfulness. (Ref. 130775)
The fire that caused the death of 7 Chinese workers on December 1 in Prato’s textile plant is the “umpteenth sign that illegal labor and unlawfulness in general are dangerously spreading in the region,” denounced the CGIL in an order of the day approved unanimously. The city, which, among its 180,000 inhabitants, shelters the largest Chinese community in the country, has nearly 5,000 Chinese firms (there were 1,500 in 2001). 70 percent operate in the fashion industry, and half of these in the
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