STRIKE! SCIOPERO!

This poster is announcing rallys during a general strike day scheduled for this Friday. What will that mean for me? It depends on which unions decide to participate in the strike.

If the busses go on strike that would mean no bus service form 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. I usually take the bus to school before that time. So getting to work for me will be fine.

If the teacher's unions go on strike the public school across from our school will be empty. (Well, almost empty. The nursery division will still be open.)

If the trains go on strike it will affect people from our church going to Orvieto for a retreat weekend. Most trains will not operate from noon to 6:00 pm. But, maybe the Orvieto trains will still be running. One never knows. (We are driving in the car, so we will not be affected.)

Bread Strike in Rome

Tonight we are having crackers instead of bread with our dinner.

Italian consumers stage "bread strike" over prices
ROME, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Consumer groups tried on Thursday to persuade Italians not to buy bread for a day, and to cut down on their consumption of other goods and services, to protest at price rises they say are not justified by raw material costs. Baking and handing out free bread near Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office, protesters called the 30 percent rise in bread prices over the past year a 'rip-off' and demanded a moratorium on price hikes and lower taxes on staple goods.

"Basket of Bread" by Salvador Dali, 1926
(I had a print of this painting in my college dorm room.)