Dockers Strike in Italy Over Freight Handling
From Reuters
ROME —
Italian dock workers began a 48-hour strike Sunday in a battle over government plans to liberalize freight handling.
The Communist-based CGIL, the biggest of Italy’s three main union confederations, called the strike after officials authorized two private companies to start handling freight in the port of Genoa.
Port operations have been disrupted by strikes for two months.
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