Enzo Friso (1927-2025): A lifelong advocate for workers’ rights

1-09-1920 A mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval. [more]

6-09-2014 Strike by air traffic controllers leads to cancellation of many flights and "major disruption". [more]

15-09-1920 In Lazio, the agricultural day laborers organized by the Ferderterra broaden the occupation of land after obtaining better contracts for the sharecroppers. 36,000 hectares are occupied around Rome. [more]

19-09-1920 An agreement was signed between employers and CGIL granting 4 lire or 10 to 20%, cost of living allowances, improvements in overtime and minimum wages, 6 public holidays and severance pay. [more]

21-09-1920 An extraordinary meeting of the FIOM enters into an agreement with the CGIL. The Communist International appeals to the occupation: the "biennio rosso" is the subject. [more]