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Italian High School Teachers in Istanbul Launch Strike Action

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/ Italy Italian High School Teachers in Istanbul Launch Strike Action [Bianet]  ActNOW!  02-02-2026


McDonald’s collective bargaining agreement now covers franchised restaurants [IUF] 28-01-2026


/ Italy Teachers at Istanbul Italian high school strike [HDN]  ActNOW!  26-01-2026


Tensions Rise Amid Hospital Strikes [Il Mattino] 22-01-2026


Former Ilva: A worker dies at the Taranto plant, prompting a 24-hour strike at all of the group's sites [Agenzia Nova] 12-01-2026



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Railway workers in Italy are striking ahead of the 2026 Olympics: passengers are warned of disruptions to services 2026-02-03 [Visit Ukraine]

Tensions Rise Over Waste Management Strike 2026-02-03 [Il Mattino]

USA Resolution of the CGIL General Assembly – Rome, 26 and 27 January 2026 on the events in Minnesota and repression in the United States 2026-02-02 [CGIL]

Italy Italian High School Teachers in Istanbul Launch Strike Action  ActNOW!  2026-02-02 [Bianet]

McDonald’s collective bargaining agreement now covers franchised restaurants 2026-01-28 [IUF]

Italy Teachers at Istanbul Italian high school strike  ActNOW!  2026-01-26 [HDN]

Tensions Rise Amid Hospital Strikes 2026-01-22 [Il Mattino]

Former Ilva: A worker dies at the Taranto plant, prompting a 24-hour strike at all of the group's sites 2026-01-12 [Agenzia Nova]

Banking, more than 3,300 young people to be hired by the beginning of 2026: Second-level bargaining has guaranteed generational turnover 2026-01-10 [Il Sole]

Filcams CGIL stands up for Sunday closures 2026-01-09 [Il Sole]

Europe Lessons from organising and negotiating in supply chains 2026-01-08 [ETF]

Nationwide agreement on AI grants Italian telecom workers a seat at the table 2025-12-19 [UNI Global Union]

Italy’s chemical unions win remarkable deal in plastics and rubber 2025-12-18 [IndustriAll Europe]

Unions strike to protest new budget priorities 2025-12-13 [Deutsche Welle]

Thousands strike and march in Italy against Meloni's budget 2025-12-13 [Reuters]

National strike called by main union disrupts transport and school services 2025-12-13 [The Post]

Unions launch general strike against the Government’s budget plan 2025-12-12 [IUF]

Budget law, Landini (CGIL): 'Strike on December 12th for higher wages.' 2025-12-08 [Nova News]

Travelling to Italy on 12 December? Nationwide Strike Could Halt Transport 2025-12-08 [FTN News]

Europe FISMIC-CONF.S.A.L. joins CESI 2025-12-07 [CESI]

Egypt “Vengeance of the state”: Italian trade unionists mobilise over threat to deport Egyptian activist 2025-11-30 [MENA SN]

Civitavecchia: Worker crushed to death by machinery 2025-11-29 [Agenzia Nova]

Country paralyzed: Five unions strike against Meloni government's budget 2025-11-28 [Sloboden Peca]

Contract: Italian journalists are on strike today. 2025-11-28 [L'Unione Sarda]

Europe EFJ President expresses solidarity with Italian journalists on strike 2025-11-28 [EFJ]

General strike on 28 November to hit air travel, trains and public transport 2025-11-27 [Wanted in Rome]

Palestine Travel disruption to hit Italy as workers strike over pay and Gaza 2025-11-27 [The Independent]

Historic win for Italy’s metal workers Add to favourites Read this article in: English 26 November, 2025Last week Italy’s metal workers secured a major victory as the unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm, all affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, signed the 2025-11-26 [IndustriALL]

Italian metalworkers’ unions secure pay rise and employer action on precarious work 2025-11-26 [IndustriAll Europe]

Alghero Cemetery: Union on the warpath: strike begins December 12th. 2025-11-24 [L'Unione Sarda]

Leonardo arms workers in Italy launch petition demanding an end to all contacts and collaboration with Israel: “Not in my name, not with my labour” 2025-11-22 [MENA SN]

Former Ilva, occupied plant and procession in Genoa. Trade unions: 'One thousand jobs at risk' 2025-11-19 [Il Sole]

Country on edge: massive November transport strike threatens to paralyse logistics 2025-11-19 [TransInfo]

Major travel disruptions as airline and transport workers stage strikes 2025-11-15 [The Times]

USB Italy: General strike and national demonstration 28-29 November 2025-11-13 [WFTU]

Letter calling for journalist Gabriele Nunziati’s reinstatement following unjustified dismissal 2025-11-12 [EFJ]

Musicians march through Venice after La Fenice names music director with ties to Meloni 2025-11-11 [CITY]

CGIL: General strike on December 12th to protest the budget law 2025-11-08 [Agenzia Nova]

IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati 2025-11-07 [EFJ]

CGIL Brings 200,000 to Rome in Democracy at Work March 2025-11-01 [News Anyway]

Union brings 200,000 to Rome for work, democracy protest 2025-10-30 [Nigeria Financial]

Foreign logistics workers 'exploited' says CGIL union 2025-10-30 [InfoMigrants]

Italian unionists beaten and detined for protesting against Israeli pharma 2025-10-28 [MENA solidarity network]

Historic win for unions as McDonald’s signs groundbreaking collective agreement 2025-10-27 [IUF]

Europe Voices: The European Festival of Journalism and Media Freedom returns for three new editions 2025-10-23 [EFJ]

Kering workers in Italy to strike over 'unilateral decisions' by the company 2025-10-21 [Fashion Network]

MFRR: Car bomb attack on investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci rings alarm for media freedom in Italy 2025-10-20 [EFJ]

Car bomb attack on investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci rings alarm for media freedom 2025-10-18 [IFJ]

Cagliari: Pharmacists strike outside the Regional Council building against Federfarma 2025-10-14 [L'Unione Sarda]

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This month in labour history

16-02-1921 Fascists tried to break a transport workers' strike by operating the trams. But they were met with mass resistance, with one scab tram attacked by over 400 people. [more]

20-02-1919 Parliament passes a law establishing the 8-hour working day in industry. Despite the wage increases obtained and the reduction in working hours, the cost of living continues to climb. [more]