In Italy, Immigrant Workers Launch a Wave of Strikes for a 40-Hour Week

a year ago by Agrajag to c/unions

Since early April, immigrant workers in the Tuscan city of Prato have staged a wave of strikes demanding their right to a 40-hour work week, or “8x5.” Organized by the union SUDD Cobas, these walkouts, dubbed “Strike Days,” have directly involved 70 textile and garment factories in Europe’s biggest textile manufacturing hub. Highly successful, these simultaneous strikes have now won “8x5”—eight hour days, five days a week—in 68 fashion workshops and warehouses, all within the span of 14 weeks.
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Sequence5666 10 points a year ago

Goood! immigrants pay so much tax and get no benefits

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