Category Archives: Precarious Workers

Foodora strikes in Italy – the dark side of the sharing economy

Posted on 2016/10/30 by Struggles in Italy

1. The sharing economy? 2. Foodora in Italy 3. New conditions and first strikes 4. Evolution of the struggle 5. Flexibility and the Italian labour market 6. Sources 1. The sharing economy? Newspapers report every day how our world is … Continue reading →

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[en] 21st October: a day of general strike

Posted on 2016/10/24 by Struggles in Italy

On 21 October, over 1.3 million workers took part in a general strike called by a number of base trade unions (USB, S.I. Cobas, Unicobas, Adl Cobas, Cub Lazio) and joined by many organisations and local groups throughout Italy. The … Continue reading →

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[en] Renzi government reforms jobs and cuts rights

Posted on 2014/03/28 by Struggles in Italy

At first glance, Giuliano Poletti, Minister of Labour and Social Policy in the Renzi government, could look like an old-fashioned left-wing politician: born into a farming family in the “red” Emilia-Romagna region, raised in the Communist Party, president of Legacoop, … Continue reading →

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[en] Hospital workers fight police in Milan

Posted on 2013/04/21 by Struggles in Italy

It has been a week of renewed struggle at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital, with mass meetings, rooftop occupations, demonstrations and fights with the police. After months of calm since the last round of protests at the end of 2012, Monday … Continue reading →

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[en]”Siamo tutti clandestini”: Migrants demonstrate against racism and exploitation (Photos)

Posted on 2013/03/23 by Struggles in Italy

Despite heavy rain, around 1000 people marched through the streets of Bologna on 23 March 2013, in a general demonstration against the Bossi-Fini law, a restrictive law on immigration from 2002. The demands were clear: The guarantee of a residence … Continue reading →

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[en] Logistics workers national strike

Posted on 2013/03/22 by Struggles in Italy

Many of the most important warehouses in northern Italy blockaded and the logistics sector of three of the most industrialized regions paralysed: that’s the result of the 24-hour strike called by the SI COBAS union and the ADL COBAS union … Continue reading →

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[en] Minister of Labour Elsa Fornero is Welcomed in Naples by 3000 Protesters

Posted on 2012/11/13 by Struggles in Italy

More than 3,000 students and unemployed workers demonstrated on November 12 in Fuorigrotta, a neighborhood of Naples, as a protest against Elsa Fornero, the Minister of Labour, and Francesco Profumo, the Minister of Education, who were in town to attend … Continue reading →

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[en] An ordinary day in the Italian crisis: workers’ protests in Rome, Sardinia and Naples

Posted on 2012/09/11 by Struggles in Italy

It’s been an ordinary day in a country where unemployment has risen to 10,7% and is growing faster than in the rest of EU. On September 8th, Alcoa workers came to Rome, to get a solution for the “impossible case” … Continue reading →

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[en] Workers struggles in Sulcis province: Alcoa and Carbosulcis

Posted on 2012/09/10 by Struggles in Italy

From August 26th to September 3rd they have been 400 meters under sea level and now that they’re back to light they don’t mean to stop their struggle. The prize for the miners of Carbosulcis is the continued existence of … Continue reading →

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[en] Teatro Coppola occupied in Catania

Posted on 2011/12/29 by Struggles in Italy

In june Valle theatre in Rome, in September the Marinoni theatre in Venice and now Coppola theatre in Catania as well is occupied. ” We reclaim the right and a duty to take up and care for a common good … Continue reading →

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