Italian government partly bans strike
The General Strike called for 17 November by the leaders of Italy’s two most powerful union confederations, CGIL and UIL, in protest against the budget of the government of Giorgia Meloni, was declared unlawful in transport beyond four hours. Never before in the history of the Italian republic has such a general strike had the law used against it in this way. Transport minister Matteo Salvini cited a 1990 law restricting strikes from “damaging the economy unduly in times of crisis”. But for the working class worse was to come. Their union leaders decided to comply and reduce the transport...