General strike in ITaly.

Can anyone get more info on this?
rough trans of a paris indymedia article:

General Strike in Italy

On Friday grassroots unions called for a general strike across the country and for demonstrations against the policies of the 'centre-left' government.

Below are extracts from the call to strike by COBAS-CUB in the Milan region.

A range of unions COBAS, AL, COBAS-CUB, SDL, USL, SLAI are clling for a strike against the new finace law (budget) and the decision on pensions taken by the unity government of Prodi (grouping together all the left parties with the remainder of the christian democrats). A governemnt that has just passed a particularly disgusting racist law.

The strike is called on these grounds:

-against military spending
-for general increases in salaries and pensions
-The right to retire after 35 years of work or at 60.

The grassroots unions denounce the agreements made between the government and bosses with the collusion of the large union organisations CGIL-CISL-UIL

We must organise ourselves to win this strike and to create conditions to cause the failure of this logic, based on the exploitation of the modern proletariat, on lies and the manipulation by economic powers and the government, deliberately permitted by the CGIL-CISI-UIL

The general strike of november 9th is only the beginning of a strike which must not only fight the political economic and social choices of capitalism and its governments but also mark the beginning of workers organisation outside of the union confederations CGIL-CISL-UIL

For these reasons the strike must be as strong as possible and spread to students and to the sectors of [url= http://alcobasregione.blogspot.c]society most affected by government decisions.
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after reading all that I'm not so sure anything is happening but I was halfway through a translation so why stop
Some info would be nice though, I can't read italian.