The CGIL trade union confederation is organising a general strike on 6 May with a set of 12 key demands. These include calls for changes to taxation and public finance, measures to deal with precarious employment and the opening of negotiations in the public sector where the government has frozen pay and annouced there will no negotiations for three years.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/415
Italian: http://www.cgil.it/DettaglioDocumento.aspx?ID=15960
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