"millions" in Italian general strike

[Thomas Seay]

It's important to remember that this strike in Italy
was successful in not only bringing out the organized
workers (those in unions, I mean) but also those in
"precarious" positions ("precario" the term the
italian comrades use) temporary workers, fast food
workers, contractual workers, immigrant
workers....Doctors and nurses also participated and
hospitals were only accepting emergency patients.

So, it was not like the heads of the top 5 unions only
called out their workers...almost ALL of the italian
working class came out, so it seems.

Thomas
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Matthew Snyder wrote:
> 
> >Doug Henwood writes:
> >>  [can we please have one of these?]
> >
> >*Could* we (Americans) have one of these?  Is it
> possible in
> >a country this large?  Certainly it could be done
> in large
> >cities if the right essential services were on
> board (public
> >transportation, schools, banks...), but I'm having
> trouble
> >figuring out the logistics of organizing a national
> general
> >strike.
> 
> Italy's not a small country. It's more a matter of
> ideology & 
> institutions than logistics, I'd say. Like Sweeney's
> gonna call for a 
> general strike - not, of course, to be disrespectful
> toward the 
> leader of the organized working class.
> 
> Doug

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