Vatican’s Lay Workers Plan Strike
A union leader said today that lay Vatican employees will go on their first strike ever next week, an action expected to close museums and shut down the Holy See’s newspaper and radio station.
Mariano Cerullo, president of the Assn. of Lay Vatican Employees, said the strike was called because of the Vatican’s failure to agree to a union proposal put forward last October to standardize pay scales and job classifications.
The tiny independent city-state has more than 3,000 lay and religious employees. Nearly 1,700 of the 1,800 lay employees belong to the union and are expected to take part in the 24-hour job action, Cerullo said.
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