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		<title>Italy&#8217;s employers warn Monti of &#8216;social butchery&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/07/09/italys-employers-warn-monti-of-social-butchery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even some leading employers are flinching at the human cost of the latest austerity measures of Mario Monti&#8217;s &#8216;technocratic&#8217; government. The country&#8217;s first UK-style spending review now heading for parliament will see big cuts to health expenditure and to the public-sector workforce as part of a 26 billion euros reduction in expenditure over the next &#8230; <a href="/2012/07/09/italys-employers-warn-monti-of-social-butchery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=3972&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s agricultural workers join rebellion against Monti&#8217;s reforms</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/04/27/italys-agricultural-workers-join-strike-action-over-montis-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 100,000 agricultural workers went on strike for 8 hours across Italy on Friday over the loss of welfare and pension rights resulting from the reforms of the unelected government of Mario Monti. Already 90% of agricultural workers are on fixed term contracts with low wages and the government&#8217;s measures will lead to further casualisation &#8230; <a href="/2012/04/27/italys-agricultural-workers-join-strike-action-over-montis-reforms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=2960&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rally against austerity, labour reforms &#8216;historic&#8217; say Portuguese communists</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/02/11/rally-against-austerity-labour-reforms-historic-say-portuguese-communists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s rally against austerity and regressive labour &#8216;reforms&#8217; in Lisbon was an &#8216;historic event,&#8217; the biggest in terms of popular support for over 30 years, according to Jerónimo de Sousa, general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party. The turn-out, estimated at 300,000 by the trade union confederation, CGTP, showed that the communists were correct to &#8230; <a href="/2012/02/11/rally-against-austerity-labour-reforms-historic-say-portuguese-communists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1746&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They call it &#8216;competitiveness&#8217;, but it&#8217;s &#8216;brutal exploitation&#8217;: new leader of Portugal&#8217;s CGTP union</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/02/08/they-call-it-competitiveness-but-its-brutal-exploitation-new-leader-of-portugals-cgtp-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL THE PRESS / IL MANIFESTO Ahead of a national demonstration on February 11,  the new leader of  Portugal&#8217;s main union confederation, Armenio Carlos, explains why he opposes the country&#8217;s recent  labour market reforms, why the public debt must be renegotiated and of the importance of &#8216;giving hope that a different politics is &#8230; <a href="/2012/02/08/they-call-it-competitiveness-but-its-brutal-exploitation-new-leader-of-portugals-cgtp-union/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1674&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spaniards take to streets of capital over public service cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/02/07/spaniards-take-to-streets-of-capital-over-public-service-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty thousand Spaniards demonstrated in defense of public services this Tuesday evening in the capital Madrid. Comissiones Obreras, UGT and other unions highlighted the negative impact on users of services, from health, where patients face reduced contact time with professional medical staff and longer waiting times, to poorer social care for elderly relatives, reduced emergency &#8230; <a href="/2012/02/07/spaniards-take-to-streets-of-capital-over-public-service-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1661&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monti, Italy and jobs for life</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/02/07/monti-italy-and-jobs-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italian premier Mario Monti hasn&#8217;t been in the job long, but is already the new darling of the European elite. So much so that some political pundits have dropped &#8216;Merkozy&#8217; &#8211; the Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy duo &#8211; for the &#8216;Merkonti&#8217; trio. Certainly, his economists&#8217; training and measured, articulate manner, contrasts favourably with his &#8230; <a href="/2012/02/07/monti-italy-and-jobs-for-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1657&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalans in fresh protests over spending cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/01/19/catalans-in-fresh-protests-over-spending-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public sector workers marched through Barcelona Wednesday to protest against spending cuts made by the regional government of Catalonia. The protestors marched behind a large black and white banner reading &#8220;No to the cuts. Save Public Services&#8221;, making their way from the central Plaza Sant Jaume to the Catalan parliament, where MPs were debating the budget for &#8230; <a href="/2012/01/19/catalans-in-fresh-protests-over-spending-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1405&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real wages to fall 5% in Spain as unprecedented deficit cuts loom</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2012/01/09/real-wages-to-fall-5-in-spain-as-unprecedented-deficit-cuts-loom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wages will fall 5% in real terms in Spain this year thanks a freeze in the minimum wage and price increases, according to Comisiones Obreras trade union confederation. Suggestions that wages were too high were not backed by the evidence as seven million workers earned “significantly less” than 1000 euros a month, said General Secretary &#8230; <a href="/2012/01/09/real-wages-to-fall-5-in-spain-as-unprecedented-deficit-cuts-loom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=1213&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italian unions to protest over health cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2011/11/15/italian-unions-to-protest-over-health-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CGIL, Italy’s largest trade union confederation, has called a day of action on Friday 18 November to protest against cuts to health budgets.  Among the swinging austerity measures passed by the outgoing government of Silvio Berlusconi over the weekend were health cuts of 12 billion euros (£10.3 billion) through 2014.  The measures come on &#8230; <a href="/2011/11/15/italian-unions-to-protest-over-health-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=413&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berlusconi promises &#8216;hire and fire&#8217; reforms</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2011/10/27/berlusconi-promises-hire-and-fire-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Gill After stormy discussions with coalition partners, the Italian premier SIlvio Berlusconi has made a number of promises to Eurozone country leaders that are designed to cut the Italian debt, partly through spending cuts and partly through measures that will supposedly boost growth. These include new attacks on working people: • New legislation &#8230; <a href="/2011/10/27/berlusconi-promises-hire-and-fire-reforms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=312&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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