Scuffles
broke out between police and hundreds of protesters in Turin at one of
several rallies against unemployment and austerity in Italy for May Day.
Activists lobbed smoke bombs at police, who charged against demonstrators in the northern industrial city, which has been badly hit by a painful two-year recession. A few protesters were seen being detained.
Thousands of people also took part in a peaceful demonstration called by the main trade unions in Pordenone, near Venice, where the closure of a nearby washing machine plant owned by Sweden's Electrolux has put 1,300 jobs at risk.
"We always hear talk about cuts in Europe instead of investment in labour," Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy's biggest union, the CGIL, said at the rally.
There was also a major protest in Milan and May Day concerts in Rome and Taranto - a heavily polluted industrial city in southern Italy where thousands of jobs at the local steel plant are at risk.
Source and full story: The Local (Italy), 2 May 2014
Activists lobbed smoke bombs at police, who charged against demonstrators in the northern industrial city, which has been badly hit by a painful two-year recession. A few protesters were seen being detained.
Thousands of people also took part in a peaceful demonstration called by the main trade unions in Pordenone, near Venice, where the closure of a nearby washing machine plant owned by Sweden's Electrolux has put 1,300 jobs at risk.
"We always hear talk about cuts in Europe instead of investment in labour," Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy's biggest union, the CGIL, said at the rally.
There was also a major protest in Milan and May Day concerts in Rome and Taranto - a heavily polluted industrial city in southern Italy where thousands of jobs at the local steel plant are at risk.
Source and full story: The Local (Italy), 2 May 2014
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