ITALY: THOUSANDS OF SLOGAN-CHANTING CAR WORKERS, PROTESTING AGAINST A PLAN BY THE ITALIAN CARMAKERS FIAT FOR HUGE LAYOFFS MARCH THROUGH CENTRAL ROME, HALTING TRAFFIC

Record ID: 500733

  • Title: ITALY: THOUSANDS OF SLOGAN-CHANTING CAR WORKERS, PROTESTING AGAINST A PLAN BY THE ITALIAN CARMAKERS FIAT FOR HUGE LAYOFFS MARCH THROUGH CENTRAL ROME, HALTING TRAFFIC
  • Date: 22nd January 1994
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY, (JANUARY 22, 1994) (ALESSANDO GENTILE - RTV) GVS/SVS: MARCHERS PASSING COLOSSEUM ESCORTED BY POLICE (7 SHOTS) GV TILT DOWN: MARCHERS IN FRONT OF PALAZZO CHIGI Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 6th February 1994 12:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Industry
  • Reuters ID: LVADN90WDOKW25I0MDP91Z23MK1H
  • Story Text: Thousands of slogan-chanting car workers, protesting against a plan by the Italian carmakers Fiat for huge layoffs, marched through central Rome on Saturday (January 22) halting traffic.

    The march was part of a union campaign to bring the company back to the negotiating table over plans to cut its work force of 95,000 by up to 15 per cent over the next two years.

    Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciapi added his voice to the protests when he called on Fiat and the unions to resume talks on the jobs losses which broke down on January 14 with no agreement reached.

    Fiat, whose car division is expected to have made a loss last year for the first time, began sending out temporary layoff notices to more than 6,000 of its staff after the talks broke down.

    The first wave of layoffs, which includes 1,800 white collar workers, affects people at the company's Turin plants and its Alfa Romeo Arese factory near Milan. Further cuts will come with the planned closure of the Sevel plant near Naples.
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