Unions push for human rights in future World Cup hosting decisions
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Italy / Global Unions push for human rights in future World Cup hosting decisions [BWI] 17-07-2024
Italy At Italy's invisible harvest helpers [ASB Zeitung] 14-07-2024
Italy / Europe Satnam Singh’s Death is a desperate plea to End Exploitation and Violence in European Agriculture [EFFAT] 05-07-2024
Italy / Germany ETF Statement on the EU Commission’s Approval of Lufthansa’s Stake in ITA Airways [ETF] 04-07-2024
Italy Bank workers launch first-ever strike at Italian stock exchange [UNI] 30-06-2024
Italy Open letter from the MFRR to the President of the European Parliament and the President of the European Commission [EFJ] 26-06-2024
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This month in labour history
6-07-1919 In Palermo, 2,000 shipyard workers on strike for a rise in wages block trams and factories. 5,000 join them in demanding a 50% reduction in prices and castigating the bosses who were “starving the people”. [more]
6-07-1919 In Arrezzo, the town hall is occupied by demonstrators against the high cost of living. Trucks are requisitioned to take the goods confiscated from traders, to the Labour Exchange, for distribution to workers' families. [more]
7-07-1919 Steelworkers and dockers strike against the high cost of living in Naples. Clashes with police leave 20 injured. Soldiers kill 5 workers in Imola, 4 in Taranto, 8 in Lucera and 2 in Florence. [more]
11-07-1919 At La Spezia workers, without waiting for directives from their unions, leave work. A crowd of 10,000 workers gathers in front of the Town Hall. Soldiers open fire, killing 2 workers and injuring 25. [more]
17-07-1921 Maritime, coal and cement workers in Civitavecchia set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime and keep fascists at bay for several months. [more]
20-07-1919 National general strike against the intervention of the armies of the imperialist countries to crush Soviet Russia and Hungary. [more]