labor

Immigrant Workers in Italy Strike for a 40-Hour Week

An interview with Sarah Caudiero Jacobin
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.

The Italian Labor and Citizenship Referenda June 8–9

Salvo Leonardi and Lepoldo Tartaglia The Stansbury Forum
Despite the defeat of pro-worker referenda, bringing workers’ rights and dignity back to the top of the list in the public discourse, in a time saddened by wars and epochal challenges, can be considered a positive.
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