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Lionesses of Cisanello: workers’ victory in times of austerity
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Lionesses of Cisanello: workers’ victory in times of austerity
italian with engl. subt.
|3 min
| 2013 |hits: 270
Tags: dienstleistungen
Tags: Gesundheitswesen
Tags: Öffentlicher Dienst
Tags: Italien
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Cleaners at Pisa’s Cisanello Hospital go on strike against threats to their jobs in light of cutbacks to healthcare spending.
Cleaners at Pisa’s Cisanello Hospital picketed their workplace for over three months, from October 2012 to January 2013. They were protesting the proposed cancellation of 78 jobs to comply with the cutbacks to healthcare spending. Their determination earned them the nickname of "lionesses," several tensions with local high ranking members of their union, and, eventually, victory against the contracting firm, Sodexo.