ITALY: WEEK OF PUBLIC-SERVICE STRIKES STARTS

Record ID: 341991

  • Title: ITALY: WEEK OF PUBLIC-SERVICE STRIKES STARTS
  • Date: 20th October 1969
  • Summary: POST OFFICE; TRAINS; BUSES; TRAMS; COLOSSEUM (NATSOF). Initials WW/V/CT/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVABI0DH86KOE9LX9J8EN7HTZW6T
  • Story Text: ITALY'S POSTMEN WENT ON STRIKE TODAY (20 OCTOBER), OPENING A WEEK OF PUBLIC-SERVICE STOPPAGES THAT COULD BRING OUT 4,500,000 WORKERS.

    WORK WAS HAMPERED IN BANKS AND OFFICES AS LETTERS AND PARCELS PILED UP FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A WEEK.

    THE NEXT SIX DAYS COULD SEE THE WORST IN A SERIES OF STRIKES AND LABOUR UNREST THAT HAVE PLAGUED THE NATION FOR FIVE WEEKS.

    FRIDAY (23 OCTOBER) IS EXPECTED TO BE THE WORST DAY WHEN A NATION-WIDE RAILWAY STRIKE COINCIDES WITH A NATION-WIDE BUS AND TRAM STOPPAGE.

    ON TOP OF EVERYTHING, THE NEWSPAPER PRINTING UNIONS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THERE WILL BE A 24-HOUR STOPPAGE ON THURSDAY (22 OCTOBER), WHICH WILL MEAN NO MORNING OR EVENING NEWSPAPERS THAT DAY.

    MORE INCONVENIENCE IS EXPECTED FROM A GENERAL STRIKE PLANNED BY ALL STATE-EMPLOYED WORKERS IN PROTEST AGAINST THE INEFFICIENCY OF THEIR SOCIAL-INSURANCE ORGANISATION.
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