Millions of workers in Italy held a one-day nationwide strike October 18, closing banks, schools, forcing cancellation of 275 flights, and shutting down half the nation’s trains. Fiat has announced layoffs of 8,000, and tens of thousands marched in Turin, where the automaker’s headquarters is located. Workers organized rallies across the country, like the one pictured above in Rome to protest the government’s antilabor legislation that threatens more than 250,000 jobs.
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