Anti-Austerity Strike Hits Italy
Submitted on September 6, 2011
06 September 2011 - Al Jazeera
Italy's largest trade union has mounted a general strike in opposition to government plans to tackle an austerity crisis...The eight-hour action called by CGIL, which represents 6 million workers, disrupted public transport and air traffic, and most government offices closed for the day..."These austerity measures are also irresponsible, they are measures that dump on the worker, on the public workers, all the costs of this crisis and this difficult financial situation..."
