House arrests lifted

Demonstration for the liberation of Carlo and Arafat, Piacenza, March 2021

SI Cobas manifestation against repression in Piacenza

On March 26, the two SI Cobas coordinators for Piacenza, Carlo and Arafat, were released from their 14 days long house arrest.
Video, 13min italian with engl subs. https://en.labournet.tv/house-arrests-lifted

Freshly freed union coordinator Carlo Pallavicini draws a connection between the successful struggles of the workers organized in SI Cobas and the current wave of repression against the basis union.

Currently, the unions fight for a renewal of the National Collective Agreement for the logistics industry that ran out in 2019 already.
In addition, TNT-Fedex now wants to close down the warehouse in Piacenza to get rid of the militant workforce.

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