Italy Unions Strike Against Tax Cuts 'For Rich'
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Italy's big three unions staged a general  strike Tuesday to protest against the government's economic  policies -- their fourth nationwide stoppage since Prime  Minister Silvio Berlusconi took power in 2001.
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MILLIONS of workers across Italy were today due to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Struggling Italian flagship carrier Alitalia held late-night talks Tuesday with the government and labor unions on how to help employees whose jobs will be slashed under a plan to save the airline, news reports said.
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ROME: Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; and urged the Italian government yesterday to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.
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NEW DELHi, AUGUST 21: Truckers went on a nation-wide strike from Saturday to protest against the imposition of the 10 per cent service tax in the Budget.
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ROME: Italy's factories, trains, banks and planes will come to a standstill for hours today as unions stage a general strike to protest at plans for tax cuts they say will help the rich and cost the public ...
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Union leaders slammed Alitalia's plans to cut 5,000 jobs as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse, but said Tuesday they will keep negotiating and hold off on any strike action.
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Rome: Millions of Italian workers took part in a one-day general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Millions of workers across Italy are expected to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Public services across part of Italy have been brought to a standstill as workers take to the streets to protest against the government&#39;s economic policies.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won support from his allies for about $7.7 billion in income-tax cuts aimed at helping the economy and improving his chances of getting re- elected in 2006.
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Business and travel in Italy ground to a near-halt Tuesday as millions of workers participated in a one-day government strike, the BBC said.
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ROME  - Struggling Italian flagship carrier Alitalia held late-night talks Tuesday with the country's government and labour unions on how to help employees whose jobs will be slashed under a plan to save the airline, news reports said.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled and many others delayed on Friday due to a four-hour air traffic controllers' strike in Italy, when unions protested against plans to centralize control of central Europe's upper-airspace.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi kept up his suggestion that he will step down if allies do not fully back his plans on income tax cuts, saying in a newspaper article that failure to pass the fiscal reform would ...
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A move by Fidelity Investments to lower its corporate taxes -- potentially by hundreds of millions of dollars a year -- came under fire yesterday by tax policy advocates and a Massachusetts union official, while a business group defended the Boston mutual fund firm's strategy.
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Unions at Telecom Italia call a strike over plans to split the firm's fixed line and mobile businesses.