trade unionism
IMAGO/ZUMA Press Wire
Labour solidarity is at the heart of the Blocchiamo Tutto movement
Although it had been simmering for months, few foresaw the magnitude of what unfolded between 22 September and 4 October 2025, when Italy — long perceived as apathetic, politically demobilized, and fragmented — suddenly came to a standstill. Under the cry “Blocchiamo Tutto”, Let’s Block Everything, a mass mobilization for the people of Gaza spread from the ports of Genoa and Livorno to the schools of Naples and the railway stations of Milan, Rome, and Bologna.
What began on 22 September as ...
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On the morning of 9 April 2013, some 1,100 employees of the Amazon fulfilment centres in Bad Hersfeld, a small town in central Germany, formed a picket line in front of the gates. They were kitted out with whistles, high-visibility vests bearing the logo of service sector trade union ver.di, and posters calling for a collective agreement based on the rules applicable to retail and mail-order companies.
Something had happened that nobody, least of all Amazon itself, had thought possible. For the first time in its almost 20-year history, ...
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