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...tighter economic measures being proposed by Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's fragile five-party coalition government. But the walkout was also an attempt by the federations to reassert their muscle in the face of a series of wildcat strikes staged this fall by independent labor organizations. The COBAS (for Comitati di Base, or rank-and-file committees) have sprung up to counter the ineffectiveness of organized labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Season of Strikes and Discontent | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Plan S. Last winter, Luigi Gedda called on Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: How to Fight Communists | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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