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CGIL more interested in defending Left than workers-Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 7 - Italy's biggest and most left-wing trade union federation CGIL, which called a general strike for Gaza last Friday, is more interested in defending the Left than the workers it ...
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CGIL political war, we'll know how to behave says Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 3 - Deputy Premier, Transport Minister and right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini said Friday that the left-wing CGIL trade union had waged political war with its general ...
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Italy’s general strike exposes workers’ opposition to austerity and war—and the treachery of the union bureaucracy

More than half a million workers across Italy took part in a one-day general strike on December 12, called by the CGIL union against the government’s 2026 Budget Law. The strike, which shut down large ...
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Italy’s general strikes against the 2026 budget of austerity and war

Italy’s proposed 2026 budget law has provoked a wave of opposition that is coalescing into two national general strikes, the first led by the base unions USB, CUB, SGB, Cobas (small ostensibly left ...