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General Strike Against Budget Hits School, Transport Sectors

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A one-day general strike called by Italy's biggest trade-union confederation, the CGIL, against the government's 2026 budget bill caused widespread disruption on Friday, especially in the school and transport sectors. (ANSA)

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The Cgil procession in Rome ended at the Forums, with a tribute to Octav Stroic, the worker who died in the collapse of the Tower of Counts. Events concluded also in the other cities,...

·Milan, Italy
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Stop from factories to school, from health care to transport. The Cgil today goes down to the square for the general strike against the maneuver "unrighteous" and "balorda" as Maurizio Landini defines it. It must be changed. And on the eve of the protest the controversy between the union and the government re-explodes at a distance. At the center of the hit and response also returns the accusation, rejected, on the long weekend. "Watch case on 2…

·Rome, Italy
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It is official: Maurizio Landini, who has long tried to paralyze Italy by claiming imaginative choices of economic policy, talks about taxes and incomes without knowing anything about taxes and incomes. To justify yet another demonstration close to the weekend (without weekends the marches should be deserted), in an interview granted to the Republic the secretary of the Cgil explains the reasons of today's strike with a series of bales, inventin…

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It was called by the CGIL to protest against the budget law: there were marches and demonstrations in dozens of cities

·Italy
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A general strike in Italy shut down public transport, healthcare and schools on Friday. The strike was called by the CGIL union headquarters to protest against the budget proposal of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government. According to the CGIL, half a million people took part in the protest.

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Quotidiano Nazionale broke the news in Italy on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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