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One million march in Italy to oppose government assault on workers' rights |
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Nearly 1 million people turned out for a protest called by one of Italy's main trade union federations March 25 to denounce plans by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to rewrite the country's labor legislation to make it easier for bosses to fire workers. Two other union federations backed out of the protest after a leading proponent of the anti-labor attack was assasinated by a group claiming to be the Red Brigades.
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